#rayograph

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Man Ray: Rayograph (1922)

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"LA MAISON FROM ÉLECTRICITÉ" MAN RAY | RAYOGRAPHS, 1931 [photogravure | 10 3/16 × 8 1/16"]

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Man Ray

Jacqueline

1930

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Happy Heavenly Birthday to Man Ray (1890-1976), the pioneer of visual art and “found objects.” He was born in American but spent most of his career in Paris, becoming an informal contributor to the Dada and Surrealist movements surrounding him. His career intersected with Salvador Dali, Marcel Duchamp, Pablo Picasso, and a hit list of actors, artists, dancers, filmmakers, and musicians. Despite Ray tagging himself as “just a painter,” he produced major works in a variety of media and is best known for his pioneering photography—specially fashion and portrait photography. He is also noted for his work with photograms (photographic images made not with a camera but with light exposure) which he called “Rayographs.” In the 1920s he directed and appeared in a number of avant-garde films, including the 1924 urban fantasy ENTR’ACTE (directed by René Clair). Ray appears with Frances Picabia, playing chess on a chessboard that transforms into a city center with busses and cars. I used this scene in a video for my song “It’s In Your Hands,” with music that quotes heavily from Erik Satie (who also appeared in ENTR’ACTE). https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xxReq4Xr-U8 Meanwhile, thank you Man for getting us to see the art in everything.

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Man Ray, 1922 - 1928

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‼️💥 rayographs💥‼️

Process below‼️💥

• Objects are placed on top of light sensitive paper

• they are then exposed to light in a darkroom

• then the objects can be removed and the photo can be developed in the darkroom (developer/stop bath/fixer)

Then scan the physical image to create a digital version

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Man Ray - Le Retour à la Raison (1923)

Man Ray, born Emmanuel Radnitzky in 1890 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, was a renowned representative of avant-garde photography in the 20th century and is considered as the pioneer of Surrealist photography. Ray's artistic work is very diverse. He was a painter, object artist, and a film maker. He was the very first artist whose images were more valuable to collectors than his artistic work. He therefore made a significant contribution to the evaluation of photography as a form of art.

Source: https://www.manray.net

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Man Ray (Emmanuel Radnitzky) (American 1890-1976), Untitled, 1928. (Source: MOMA Museum of Modern Art)

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I made some photograms in the darkroom today.

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Pepe Atocha

My work is a way of looking through the symbolic manifestations of nature, revealing energy

rather than matter.

In the dark room, I find a physical/mental space where I reveal images that are far from the

the condemnation of the exact description of the tangible; pictures that emerge in the light of play, research, intuition

intuition, collage; capturing shadows instead of matter, allowing us to make visible in

the world of energies that interact with the physical dimension and fantasy.

The photography without camera allows me to have a durable vision of the world, by exempting me from the rules of the progress

digital progress.

Pepe Atocha lives and works in Tarapoto, High Amazonia, Peru.

https://lavolante.art/en/portfolios/pepe-atocha/

The unconscious of medicinal plants series

Rayographs exposed to the fire of a lighter, roots leaves mushrooms

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Man Ray

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Man Ray - Rayograph, 1922

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MAN RAY / "PLUME (FEATHER)" / 1945 [positive variant gelatin silver print from a rayograph | 24.5 x 19.8 cm.]

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Man Ray

Water Lily

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Man Ray - Rayograph with hand, lens and egg, 1922

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Bill Brandt     Reflected Self-portrait, East Sussex     1966

“It is part of the photographer’s job to see more intensely than most people do. He must have and keep in him something of the receptiveness of the child who looks at the world for the first time or of the traveler who enters a strange country. Most photographers would feel a certain embarrassment in admitting publicly that they carried within them a sense of wonder, yet without it they would not produce the work they do, whatever their particular field. It is the gift of seeing the life around them clearly and vividly, as something that is exciting in its own right. It is an innate gift, varying in intensity with the individual’s temperament and environment...

I had the good fortune to start my career in Paris in 1929, working in the studio of Man Ray... For any young photographer at that time, Paris was the centre of the world. Those were the exciting early days when the French poets and surrealists recognized the possibilities of photography...

There were the surrealist publications, Bifui, Varietes Minotaure and others, the first magazines to choose photographs for their poetic quality. There were the surrealist films such as Bunuel’s notorious Le Chien Andalou and L’Age d’ Or, which had a strong effect on photography. One could say that it was now that modern photography was born.

Atget’s work was at last being published. He had died almost unrecognised, two years before. Brassai, Kertesz and Cartier-Bresson were all working in Paris, as well as Man Ray. Man Ray, the most original photographer of them all, had just invented the new techniques of rayographs and solarization. I was a pupil in his studio, and leaned much from his experiments...” Bill Brandt