Man Ray

Man Ray's was succesfull in both the United States and Europe. He matured in the center of American modernism in the 1910s, and made Paris his home in the 1920s and 1930s, and in the 1940s he went back, spending periods in New York and Hollywood. His art comprised painting, sculpture, film, prints and poetry, and in his amazing career he worked in styles ranging from Cubism, Futurism, Dada and Surrealism. He also balanced the worlds of commercial and fine art, and came to be a renowned fashion photographer. He is perhaps most remembered for his photographs of the inter-war years, in particular the camera-less pictures he called 'Rayographs', but he always considered himself first and foremost as a painter.