Man Ray Boeken

'Een geweldig en troostrijk boek. Ik ken geen mooier boek over een stad.' - Connie Palmen in DWDD Ernest Hemingway verhuisde in 1921 met zijn vrouw Hadley naar Parijs. De lichtstad, waar hij kennismaakte met illustere persoonlijkheden als Gertrude Stein, F. Scott Fitzgerald en Ezra Pound, zou van grote invloed zijn op zijn schrijverschap. In Parijs is een feest brengt Hemingway de uitbundige stemming van de stad na de Eerste Wereldoorlog op briljante wijze tot leven. In 1964 verscheen dit boek voor het eerst, onder de titel A Moveable Feast. Na de aanslagen van november 2015 werd het opnieuw een bestseller in Frankrijk, in het bijzonder vanwege de ode aan de vitaliteit en veerkracht van Parijs. Deze nieuwe vertaling bevat niet eerder gepubliceerd materiaal, waaronder een hoofdstuk over het einde van Hemingways eerste huwelijk. 'Dit is Hemingway op zijn best. Niemand heeft ooit zo goed geschreven over Parijs in de jaren twintig van de twintigste eeuw als Hemingway.' - The New York Times

When American-born Surrealist Man Ray died in 1976, he left behind thousands of photo negatives, mostly portraits taken in his studio after his arrival in Paris in 1921. The Centre Georges Pompidou, which has owned them since the mid-1990s, has duly catalogued the collection of negatives and is now in a position to bring out what is an encyclopedic publication in the best sense of the term. It attests both to Man Ray s ability as a portrait photographer and to the quality of his archive as a monument to cultural history. The catalog features 500 portraits, each of which is explained in a short commentary. Since Man Ray's clientele was made up of members of Dadaist and Surrealist circles, of artists and painters, of writers and US emigrants of the Lost Generation, of aristocrats, and paragons of the worlds of fashion and theater, the book is at the same time a marvelous Who's Who and an indispensable reference work for a broad range of different historians and scholars of the 20th century.

“I do not photograph nature, I photograph my fantasy,” Man Ray proclaimed, and he found in the camera's eye and in light's magical chemistry the mechanisms for dreaming. Schooled as a painter and designer in New York, Man Ray turned to photography after discovering the 291 Gallery and its charismatic founder, Alfred Stieglitz. As a young expatriate in Paris during the twenties and thirties, Man Ray embraced Surrealism and Dadaism, creeds that emphasized chance effects, disjunction and surprise. Tireless experimentation with technique led him to employ solarization, grain enlargement, mixed media and cameraless prints (photograms)--which he called “Rayographs”. These successful manipulations for which he was dubbed “the poet of the darkroom” by Jean Cocteau, were a major contribution to twentieth-century photography. Man Ray presents 43 of the greatest images from the artist's career. The essay by Jed Perl describes the influences on Man Ray's career and his enduring contribution to photography.

Man Ray found the surreal in the commonplace, particularly in the female form, and this has made his photography some of the world's most accessible and his ubiquitous La Violin d'Ingres creates a cello from a woman's torso with the addition of curliqued vents inked on her sides; his classic image of shining cinematic tears glistening on a powdered cheek has been tucked into mirror frames all over the world. This collection of more than 130 pictures dated between 1920 and 1950 covers not only Ray's work as one of the world's leading avant-garde artists--he was a tireless experimenter who participated in the Cubist, Dadaist and Surrealist art movements--but also his commercial work. It includes fashion photography and advertising images; portraits of many artists, including Marcel Proust, Marcel Duchamp and Andre Breton; and a portfolio of 26 Femmes. Art dealer Giorgio Marconi, who met May Ray in 1966 in Milan, contributes an insightful interview.

Masterful collection of 60 works by a supreme artist with an unerring ability to capture his subject’s personality on film. Revealing portraits of Jean Cocteau, Salvador Dalí, Ernest Hemingway, Virginia Woolf, James Joyce, Gertrude Stein, Pablo Picasso and many other luminaries. New English translations of Introduction and captions.

Man Ray is indisputably one of the most original artists of the 20th century. His innovative nude studies, fashion work and portraits opened a new chapter in the history of photography. Born Emmanuel Radnitzky in Philadelphia, he began his artistic career in New York. In 1921 he moved to Paris, where he was enthusiastically welcomed into Dadaist and Surrealist circles. Man Ray - together with Marcel Duchamps, André Breton, Paul Eluard, Louis Aragon and Philippe Soupault - revolutionized the traditional understanding of art. A multi-faceted genius, he not only did photographic portraits of James Joyce, Gertrude Stein and Pablo Picasso, but he also engaged himself as a fashion photographer for Vogue and Harpers Bazaar. Man Ray experimented tirelessly with new photographic techniques - multiple exposure, rayography and solarization were some of his most famous creations. 'The Man Ray' portfolio features high quality prints that beg to be framed. Tucked in the portfolio are 14 large-format reproductions, each with a brief description.

In this autobiography, May Ray - painter, photographer, sculptor, film maker and writer - relates the story of his life, from his childhood determination to be an artist and his technical drawing classes in a Brooklyn high school, to the glamorous and heady days of Paris in the 1940s and beyond.

"A semi-autobiographical middle-grade graphic novel about a Canadian-Chinese boy who feels invisible at home and in school but longs to stand out"--

Lié au surréalisme, Man Ray s'est joué de la technique photographique comme du sens caché des images. Il participera à la mutation des valeurs esthétiques.

Herausgegeben Von Rudolf Kicken ; Mit Texten Von Wendy Grossman ... [et Al.]. Catalog Of An Exhibition Held Sept. 19, 1996-jan. 26, 1997 At Kunsthaus Wien. Includes Bibliographical References (p. 263).

Realizzando i ritratti delle personalità qui raccolte - da Picasso a Virginia Woolf, da Jean Cocteau a Henry Miller, da T. S. Eliot a Luis Bunuel, fino a modelle o attrici sconosciute - il fotografo si è interessato esclusivamente al volto dei suoi modelli, senza tener conto della loro situazione o della loro celebrità, né della maggiore o minore simpatia che potevano personalmente ispirargli. Quando in seguito ha potuto fare una più approfondita conoscenza di alcune delle persone ritratte, i suoi sentimenti nei loro confronti si sono precisati, poco importa come. Per esprimere questo interesse l'autore è ricorso a un giochetto un tempo in voga fra i surrealisti: ha attribuito un venti quando era in perfetta sintonia con la personalità e nutriva per la sua fotografia un apprezzamento senza riserve. Partendo da questa base, ha quindi classificato ciascun soggetto e ciascuna immagine da zero a venti. Il lettore può modificare a suo piacimento tali valutazioni. Anche il breve commento con cui l'autore ha accompagnato ogni ritratto, e che a suo avviso caratterizza il modello, esprime un giudizio del tutto personale. Esso non deve in nessun caso esser considerato come definitivo.

Chefs d'uvre L'exposition d'ouverture du centre Pompidou-Metz.