NEW YORK, NY.- A trailblazing figure in 20th-century
art, Man Ray (1890-1976) revealed multiple artistic identities over the
course of his career – Dadaist, Parisian Surrealist, international
portrait and fashion photographer – and produced many important
and enduring works as a photographer, painter, filmmaker, writer,
sculptor, and object maker. Relatively few people know that he was
born Emmanuel Radnitzky to Russian Jewish immigrants. In
fact, he spent a lifetime suppressing his background to the point of
denying he was ever called anything but Man Ray.