Man Ray photograms & photography (part 3)

These are the third and final part of my Man Ray collection.
I hope you enjoyed them. I think they show us another side of the art of photograph.
I mean the essence of the photograph; "drawing with light".

In this part, I'll post some quotes about Man Ray too.
  

• "[Man Ray was] a kind of short man who looked a little like Mr. Peepers, spoke slowly with a slight Brooklynese accent, and talked so you could never tell when he was kidding." — Brother-in-law Joseph Browner on his first impression of the artist; quoted in the Fresno Bee, August 26, 1990. 

• "MAN RAY, n.m. synon. de Joie jouer jouir." (Translation: "MAN RAY, masculine noun, synonymous with joy, to play, to enjoy.") — Marcel Duchamp, as the opening epigram for Man Ray's memoir Self-Portrait, 1963. 

• "With him you could try anything—there was nothing you were told not to do, except spill the chemicals. With Man Ray, you were free to do what your imagination conjured, and that kind of encouragement was wonderful." — Artist and photographer, Naomi Savage, Man Ray's niece and protégée, in a 2000 newspaper interview. 

• "Man Ray is a youthful alchemist forever in quest of the painter's philosopher's stone. May he never find it, as that would bring an end to his experimentations which are the very condition of living art expression." — Adolf Wolff, "Art Notes", International 8, no. 1 (January 1914), p. 21.

Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Man_Ray

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Man Ray photograms & photography (part 2)

These are the second part of my Man Ray collection, the famous surrealist artist.
These are really interesting to try and examine, and analyze.
In this part, I'll quote some of his words too.

• "It has never been my object to record my dreams, just the determination to realize them." (Julien Levy exhibition catalog, April 1945.)

• "There is no progress in art, any more than there is progress in making love. There are simply different ways of doing it." (1948 essay, "To Be Continued, Unnoticed".)

• "To create is divine, to reproduce is human." ("Originals Graphic Multiples", circa 1968; published in Objets de Mon Affection, 1983.)

• "I paint what cannot be photographed, that which comes from the imagination or from dreams, or from an unconscious drive. I photograph the things that I do not wish to paint, the things which already have an existence." (Undated interview, circa 1970s; published in Man Ray: Photographer, 1981.)

• "I have been accused of being a joker. But the most successful art to me involves humor." (Undated interview, circa 1970s; published in Man Ray: Photographer, 1981.)

• "An original is a creation motivated by desire. Any reproduction of an originals motivated by necessity. It is marvelous that we are the only species that creates gratuitous forms. To create is divine, to reproduce is human."

• "Of course, there will always be those who look only at technique, who ask 'how', while others of a more curious nature will ask 'why'. Personally, I have always preferred inspiration to information."

• “I do not photograph nature. I photograph my visions.”

Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Man_Ray

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Man Ray photograms & photography (part 1)

Man Ray is an artist from USA but he has spent mos of his life in France, specifically in Paris.

His art style is surrealism but some think his style is close to Dadaism too. He didn't think himself belong to any of those two though.
Some of his work are considered "poetric" too
Apart from photography, he was a painter too. He took fashion and portrait photographs.
He did photograms too, which he called "Rayographs".

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