MAN RAY

A minor Polyartist, Man Ray was considerably more skilled at some of his arts than others. Largely self-taught, he made Collages and Cubist paintings before World War I. In 1915, he published out of a New Jersey artists' colony a Protodada magazine, The Ridgefield Gazook, and after meeting Marcel Duchamp later that year, Ray became a principal participant in New York Dada. Moving to Paris in 1921, he joined organized Surrealism and moved from photography into film, producing...