Man Ray

American and French visual artist (1890–1976)

Man Ray was born in Philadelphia in 1890 and died in 1976. He worked across multiple disciplines including painting, photography, film, sculpture, printmaking, and design. Based in Paris for most of his career, he contributed to Dada and Surrealist movements, though his involvement with each was informal. He innovated with photograms, a technique he termed "rayographs," and worked as a fashion and portrait photographer, though he identified primarily as a painter.

Occupation

Man Ray is recorded as a autobiographer, a lithographer, a object artist, a assemblage artist, a collagist, a draftsperson, a printmaker, a film editor, a designer, a director, a jewelry designer, a film director, a filmmaker, a graphic artist, a sculptor, a painter, a cinematographer, a screenwriter, a actor and a photographer, born in Pennsylvania (1890–1976).