February 18–June 25, 2006
Focus on Photographs: Man Ray’s Électricité
See revolutionary images created by the innovative American photographer Man Ray (1890–1976), who made cameraless photographs by placing objects like toasters, light bulbs, and irons on photographic paper or film and then exposing the film or paper to light.
Man Ray was one of the few American artists involved in the international movements of Dada and Surrealism during the first half of the twentieth century. Soon after he moved to Paris in 1921, Man Ray began to experiment with photograms, photographs made without a camera by placing objects on light-sensitive paper.