Man ray biography summary graphic organizers

Man Ray was a pioneer in twentieth-century avant-garde art and phototgraphy.

Man ray biography summary graphic organizers

He was one of the leading members of the the Dada and Surrealist art movements in America and France. He had immense success through his portraits and avant-garde fashion photographs.

Emmanuel Rudnitzky, better known to most as Man Ray, was born in America, the son of two Jewish Russian Emigres.

Showing an artistic talent from a young age, he dashed his father's hopes for an architect in the family when he moved to Paris in 1921 to pursue his artistic career.

In Paris Man Ray quickly became a permanent fixture of the Parisian Avant-garde and a devotee of Dada and surrealism.

He pioneered a number of photographic techniques, including the rayogram and solarisation, and is responsible for some of the most iconic images of the 20^th Century. Man Ray left Paris during the war years when he returned to America.

He settled in Hollywood where he met his w