Man Ray first photographed his friends....the poets, painters, and musicians he associated with ..then went onto their friends and partners, until his varied and impressive gallery of photographs made him celebrated.
The brightest names in Paris Society considered it an honor to sit for a portrait by Man Ray.
But it was the female form that inspired his most poetic and unusual images, many techniques he developed were exploited masterfully indeed.
Shortly after Man Ray moved to Paris's bohemian Montparnasse section, he met Alice Prin, better known as "Kiki".
She became his lover and favourite model.
In his painting..."Observatory Time...The Lovers"...which later he re-created as a colour photograph, the painting had been inspired by his daily walk through the Luxembourg Gardens.The lips and the scale of them, no doubt, suggested two closely joined bodies...Freudian perhaps?.....haunted by his dreams he wanted to paint them on a scale of superhuman proportions.
His inspired tinkering and inventiveness....came out of his never ending effervescent imagination.
Man Ray 's traits were so essential to the avant-garde artist, his audacity and continual willingness to call traditional notions of art into question....places him at the front line and stamp him....."The main man of the surrealist spirit".
As a Fashion Photographer...Man Ray wanted to combine art and fashion, he was there when the outstanding Couturier...Lucien Lelong ruled Parisienne society, and photographed a reclining wooden mannequin wearing a Lelong gown.
Man Ray said...'I have tasted freedom...it was hard work, but it was worth it"...my main man......
MAN RAY.
GO GO Mello Moix
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