Man Ray

Ray, Man --- Dadaist photograph and director.

Born: 1890 -- died: 1976

Born Emmanuel Radnitzky in 1890 in Philadelphia, artist, best known as a surrealist photographer, he produced his first significant photographs in 1918. He was living in New York, and with his close friend Marcel Duchamp, formed the American branch of the Dada movement, which began in Europe as a radical rejection of traditional art. After a few unsuccessful experiments, and notably after the publication of a unique issue of New York Dada in 1920, Man Ray stated that “Dada cannot live in New York,” and in 1921 followed Duchamp to live and work in the era of great creativity in Montparnasse, Paris, France. It was there, for the next twenty years, that Man Ray revolutionized the art of photography.

Buried in Cimetiere de Montparnasse , Paris, France

Epitaph: 'Unconcerned, but not indifferent'.