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Man Ray (Emmanuel Radnitzky). Électricité (Electricity)

Man Ray (Emmanuel Radnitzky)

Électricité (Electricity)

Published 1931

Portfolio with ten tipped-in gravure reproductions of rayographs (“rayogrammes”): nine photograms, four made with photographic negatives, and one layered photographic image, each in a transparentized paper folder with letterpress title; two folded sheets with letterpress text; publisher’s original portfolio enclosures

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Author (introduction) Pierre Bost
Medium Portfolio with ten tipped-in gravure reproductions of rayographs (“rayogrammes”): nine photograms, four made with photographic negatives, and one layered photographic image, each in a transparentized paper folder with letterpress title; two folded sheets with letterpress text; publisher’s original portfolio enclosures
Dimensions plates: 10 × 8" (25.4 × 20.3 cm); sheets: 15 × 11" (38.1 × 27.9 cm); portfolio (closed): 15 3/16 × 11 5/16 × 7/16" (38.5 × 28.7 × 1.1 cm)
Publisher La Compagnie Parisienne de Distribution d’Électricité (CPDE)
Printer Albert Jarach and Paul Chambry
Edition 500. Twenty-five artist’s and publisher’s copies numbered 1–25; 475 numbered 26–500. This copy no. 13
Credit Gift of Helen and Sam Zell
Object number 515.2022.1-10
Department Drawings and Prints

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Man Ray (Emmanuel Radnitzky)

Man Ray (Emmanuel Radnitzky)

American, 1890–1976 195 works online

So enthused Man Ray (born Emmanuel Radnitzky) in 1922, shortly after his first experiments with camera-less photography. He remains well known for these images, commonly called photograms but which he dubbed “rayographs” in a punning combination of his own name and the word “photograph.

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