{"product_id":"man-ray-liberating-photography-hardcover","title":"Man Ray: Liberating Photography - Hardcover","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eNathalie Herschdorfer\u003c\/b\u003e (Author), \u003cb\u003eWendy Grossman\u003c\/b\u003e (Text by (Art\/Photo Books))\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMan Ray (1890-1976) was a man both of and ahead of his time. With his conceptual approach and innovative techniques, he liberated photography from previous constraints and opened the floodgates to new ways of thinking about the medium.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA close friend of Marcel Duchamp and André Breton, he was one of the few photographers to be mentioned among the Dada artists and surrealists. He also worked as a fashion photographer, first for Vogue and later for \u003cem\u003eHarper's Bazaar\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003eVanity Fair\u003c\/em\u003e. Renowned as the creator of Ingres's Violin--a photograph from 1924 that broke records when it was sold for $12.4 million in 2022--Man Ray remains an influential figure in the worlds of art, fashion, and pop culture, with many other artists referencing his work.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePublished in connection with an exhibition at Photo Elysée and in the centennial year of the publication of André Breton's \u003cem\u003eSurrealist Manifesto\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eMan Ray\u003c\/em\u003e presents more than one hundred and fifty of Man Ray's portraits, primarily from the 1920s and '30s. It includes portraits of the leading lights of the Paris art scene, among them Marcel Duchamp, Robert Delaunay, Georges Braque, Alberto Giacometti, and Pablo Picasso, as well as a selection of his fashion work. As an innovator of photographic techniques and compositional form, Man Ray found the studio portrait--be it of the artists and writers with whom he had longstanding friendships or of the objects and sculptures he collected--to be the playground in which he could express the visual wit and experimentation for which he is renowned.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 224\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.8 x 9.4 x 7.6 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e September 10, 2024\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51752250179872,"sku":"9780500028117","price":50.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0974\/9764\/5344\/files\/c0d1bf3014a89c80083eef047ef782fc.webp?v=1779991165","url":"https:\/\/ebocreations.com\/products\/man-ray-liberating-photography-hardcover","provider":"The E-Book Oasis LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}