Man Ray “Printmaker”
Francis M. Naumann Fine Art
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Man Ray is best known as a photographer, indeed, as one of the most innovative photographers of the modern era. That well-deserved reputation has, however, tended to overshadow his work in other media, particularly as a painter, which, throughout his life, he maintained was his first passion. It was his work as a painter that let him to the art of printmaking, for he quickly realized that like the printed word, multiple impressions of a given work of art could reach a far larger audience. In 1914-15, while living in an artists’ colony in Ridgefield, New Jersey, he used a lithographic press to print books of his poems, many of which were embellished with illustrations to accompany his text. In 1917, a few years after he began his first experiments in photography, he used the medium to create cliché verres, photographic prints that were produced by means of negatives made entirely by hand, using a stylus to draw onto the surface of a coated plate of glass. This allowed the artist to print more than one impression of a given image (which he usually limited to no more than three signed and numbered copies).
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from September 18, 2013 to October 25, 2013