Man Ray was an American photographer as well as an artist trained in the art of painting. He participated in the Surrealist and Dada movements that swept the world during his time. Man was born in Philadelphia and worked in an advertising office and worked part-time as a draughtsman for publishers of atlases, maps and books on engineering. He took part in life-drawing classes at the Ferrer Center in New York under the instruction of George Bellows in 1912. After observing the Armory Show in 1913, man started painting in a Cubist style. In

Man cared very little for aesthetics and technicalities and actually possessed contempt for certain materials he used in his art. Perhaps because of his contempt he was so suitable among the Dadaists and Duchamp. Man loved to defy contemporary standards and experimented with absurd and sometimes unsettling techniques.

Man ray turned to the camera as a fast way to execute portraits. “If it is a portrait that interests me, a face, of a nude, I will use my camera,” he remarked. “It is quicker than making a drawing or a painting to express what I feel, I use the medium best suited to express that idea, which is also always the most economical one.” He created portraits of many of the intellectual leaders; some included are: Benton, Schoenberg, Matisse, Ernst, Hemingway, and Brancusi. The magazine Vanity Fair published many of his portraits in the 1920s well into the next decade. His portrait and fashion photography earned him considerable commercial success.

1915, he met Duchamp, who was known for taking everyday objects out of their usual context and displaying them in an unusual way, and

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Modern Movement, Dada Surrealist, Arts Ray, Paris Nazi, George Bellows, Vanity Fair, Surrealist Dada, Dadaists Duchamp, Andy Warhol, World War, portrait fashion, art painting,