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Man Ray Biography
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1890 |
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Born in Philidelphia, PA as Emmanuel Radnitsky
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1897 |
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His family moved to Brooklyn, NY
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1910 - 1911 |
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Began going to Ferrer Center, New York, NY
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1912 |
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Moved to Ridgefield, NJ
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1915 - 1916 |
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Participated in the New York Dada movement
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1913 - 1919 |
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Worked part-time as draughtsman for publisher of maps and atlases
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1925 |
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French and American editions of Vogue publish his fashion photographs
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1921 - 1940 |
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Lived and worked in Paris, France
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1976 |
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Died in Paris, France
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| Selected Exhibitions |
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2009 - 2010
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"Alias Man Ray: The Art of Reinvention", The Jewish Museum, New York, NY (solo)
"Man Ray: African art through the modernist lens", The Phillips Collection, Washington, DC; University of Virginia Art Museum, Charlottesville,VA; University of British Columbia,Museum of Anthropology, Vancouver, Canada (solo)
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2008
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"Duchamp, Man Ray, Picabia: The Moment Art Changed Forever", Tate Modern, London, UK
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2006
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"Man Ray in the Age of Electricity", Heckscher Museum of Art, Huntington, NY (solo)
"Dada", Musuem of Modern Art, New York, NY; National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC
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2004
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"Man Ray, from the collection of Ray’s assistant Lucien Triellard", National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne, Australia (solo)
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2003
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"Surrealist Muse: Lee Miller, Roland Penrose, and Man Ray", Getty Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA
"Conversion to Modernism: The Early Works of Man Ray", Georgia Museum of Art, University of Georgia, GA; Montclair Art Museum, NJ (solo)
"Man Ray's Paris Portraits: 1921-39", Carosso Fine Art, New York, NY (solo)
"The Omnipotent Dream: Man Ray, Confluences and Influences", The Turchin Center for the Visual Arts, Appalachian State University, Boone, NC
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2002
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"Man Ray: Voyeur/Voyant", Hillwood Art Museum, NY (solo)
"Surrealism: Desire Unbound", The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY,br>"Modernist Photographs by Herbert Bayer and Man Ray", Denver Museum of Art, CO
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2000
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"A Practical Dreamer: The Photographs of Man Ray, 100 prints from 1916-1950s", Walker Art Center, MN (solo)
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1998 - 1999
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"Man Ray: Photography and Its Double, retrospective", Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris, France;International Center of Photography, New York, NY (solo)
"A Practical Dreamer: The Photographs of Man Ray", J.Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles, CA (solo)
"Comprehensive American Surrealism Exhibition", The Salvador Dali Museum, St.Petersberg, FL
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1971
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"Retrospective of 225 works from 1912-1971", Boymans van Beuningen Museum, Rotterdam, Netherlands; Galleria Schwarz, Milan, Italy (solo)
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1967
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'Salute to Man Ray", American Center, Paris, France (solo)
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1948
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Bill Copley Gallery, Beverly Hills, CA (solo)
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1947
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“Dreams that Money Can Buy”, film collaborated with Ernst, Duchamp, Calder, Milhaud, Léger, Venice Film Festival, Venice, Italy
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1921
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Galerie des Six, Paris, France
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1920
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"Painting by American Modernists", Museum of History, Science and Art, Los Angeles, CA
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1919
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Daniel Gallery, New York, NY (solo)
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1917
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Daniel Gallery, New York, NY (solo)
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1915
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Daniel Gallery, New York, NY (solo)
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Selected Public Collections:
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Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL
Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, San Francisco, CA
Guggenheim Museum, New York, NY
Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington, DC
J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles, CA
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, TC
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA
Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY
Peggy Guggenheim Collection, Venice, Italy
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, CA
The Phillips Collection, Washington, DC
Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC
International Center of Photography, New York, NY
The National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC
Reina Sofía National Museum, Madrid, Spain
Tate Gallery, London, UK
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY
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| Literature |
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2003
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Castant, Alexandre. Noire et blanche de Man Ray. New York: Scala, 2003
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2002
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L'Ecotais de, Emmanuelle. Man Ray rayographies. Paris, France: Léo Scheer, 2002
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2001
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Martin, Jean-Hubert. Man Ray Photographs. New York: Thames & Hudson, 2001
Lottman, Herbert. Man Ray à Montparnasse.Paris, France: Hachette, 2001
Heiting, Manfred. ManRay. Köln, Germany: Taschen, 2001
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2000
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Baldwin, Neil. Man Ray: American Artist. New York: Da Capo Press Inc, 2000
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1998
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L'Ecotais de, Emmanuelle. Man Ray, la photographie à l'envers. Paris, France: Editions du Centre Pompidou, 1998 (catalogue)
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| Links to further information |
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