Artist Man Ray started out as a fashion photographer. Paris exhibition explores his early work
- American photographer Man Ray is known for his artistic compositions, but he started his career as a fashion photographer
- As a Paris exhibition shows, his artistic flair was already dominating his work
He is one of the 20th century’s most famous artists, but not many people know that Man Ray got his start as a fashion photographer.
A new exhibition in Paris, in France, sets out to uncover the fashion world roots of the American surrealist, who first made his name taking flattering portraits of the rich and famous.
Like many young artists, Emmanuel Radnitzky – as Man Ray was then known – had trouble making ends meet when he arrived in Paris in 1920 to plunge himself into the Dadaist movement (an art movement that formed in reaction to the first world war).
But the new show “Man Ray and Fashion” at the Luxembourg museum (Musee du Luxembourg) in the French capital sets out how his time as chronicler of the style stars of the Roaring Twenties shaped his art.
