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A close look at Man Ray’s portraits from the interwar period, as well as the friendships between the photographer and his subjects: the international avant-garde in Paris
Shortly after his arrival in Paris in July 1921, Man Ray (1890–1976)—the pseudonym of Emmanuel Radnitzky—embarked on a sustained effort to document the city’s international avant-garde in a series of remarkable portraits that established his reputation as one of the leading photographers of his time. Man Ray’s subjects included cultural figures such as Berenice Abbott, André Breton, Jean Cocteau, Marcel Duchamp, Ernest Hemingway, Miriam Hopkins, Aldous Huxley, James Joyce, Lee Miller, Méret Oppenheim, Pablo Picasso, Alice Prin (Kiki de Montparnasse), Elsa Schiaparelli, Erik Satie, and Gertrude Stein. As this richly illustrated publication demonstrates, Man Ray’s portraits go beyond merely recording the outward appearance of the subject and instead aim to capture the essence of his models as creative individuals, as well as the collective spirit and character of the Roaring Twenties in Paris between the two world wars, when the city became world-famous as a powerful and evocative symbol of artistic freedom and daring experimentation.
Published by Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, 2021
320 pages
ISBN: 9780300260847
A close look at Man Ray’s portraits from the interwar period, as well as the friendships between the photographer and his subjects: the international avant-garde in Paris
Shortly after his arrival in Paris in July 1921, Man Ray (1890–1976)—the pseudonym of Emmanuel Radnitzky—embarked on a sustained effort to document the city’s international avant-garde in a series of remarkable portraits that established his reputation as one of the leading photographers of his time. Man Ray’s subjects included cultural figures such as Berenice Abbott, André Breton, Jean Cocteau, Marcel Duchamp, Ernest Hemingway, Miriam Hopkins, Aldous Huxley, James Joyce, Lee Miller, Méret Oppenheim, Pablo Picasso, Alice Prin (Kiki de Montparnasse), Elsa Schiaparelli, Erik Satie, and Gertrude Stein. As this richly illustrated publication demonstrates, Man Ray’s portraits go beyond merely recording the outward appearance of the subject and instead aim to capture the essence of his models as creative individuals, as well as the collective spirit and character of the Roaring Twenties in Paris between the two world wars, when the city became world-famous as a powerful and evocative symbol of artistic freedom and daring experimentation.
Published by Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, 2021
320 pages
ISBN: 9780300260847