Historical Photographer

"It has never been my object to record my dreams, just the determination to realize them."

-Man Ray

Born as Emmanuel Radnitzky on August 27, 1980, in Pennsylvania, was an American photographer who contributed to the surrealist and Dada movements (a movement which commented on the what makes art have meaning). Most of his childhood went unrecorded but we do know that the Radnitzky family changed their name to Ray in order to avoid racial discrimination. Man Ray's mother was a great influence on his artistic abilities; during his childhood, his mother would create collage-like clothing designs using pieces of scrap material. His enrollment at the Ferrer School in 1912 was what propelled his artistic endeavors and developed his skills. He moved to Paris and worked with Cubism and began to develop his personal sense of style. During World War II He was forced to leave Europe and move back to New York. He died on November 18, 1976 due to a lung infection.

He worked with a lot of media art forms but he considered himself a painter. His speciality was working with photograms, an image made by exposing an object to light on top photo sensitive paper without the use of a camera, which he later coined "rayographs."He worked with fashion and portrait photography using avante-garde principles and also explore the film industry and written word.

His most famous works were using the famous performer Kiki of Montparnasse as his model, creating objects out her body.