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[Calla Lilies]
Creator
Man RayAmerican Photographer · 1890–1976
All works by this person →Born in Philadelphia, Emmanuel Radnitsky grew up in New Jersey and became a commercial artist in New York in the 1910s. He began to sign his name *Man Ray* in 1912, although his family did not change its surname to *Ray* until the 1920s. He initially taught himself photography in order to reproduce his own works of art, which included paintings and mixed media. In 1921 he moved to Paris and set up
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- 1930
- Medium
- Solarized gelatin silver print
- Culture
- American
- Department
- Photographs
- Institution
- Getty Museum
- Object ID
- dc073927-f99b-4879-a1bd-0b739b27a753
Man Ray made a series of photographs of calla lilies in 1930, one of which appeared in his 1934 book of photographs. The solarized blooms, however, did not find favor with the august American critic Lewis Mumford, who wrote in the *New Yorker*, "A photographer who can deal intelligently with the human face should not waste his time photographing calla lilies so they will look like a drawing by a second-rate academician."
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