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Rudnitsky Man Ray
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The publication of a postal stamp is often a homage paid by a nation to a place, an event, a remarkable cause or a character which count. The painters and other artists do not escape from this rule. Some are however "forgotten" of postal art. Here, gathered below (French or foreign), emitted stamps (206) or simple studies of stamp (224) in homage to the artists represented on our website. The first French stamp was emitted in 1849, England preceded us by ten years. There is often a share of voyage in this small form of shape paper. The stamp circulates, sails, flies away, it makes dream, then dream a little. M.C.
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Emmanuel Radnitzky, dit Man Ray, est mort à Paris le 18 novembre 1976 ; il avait 86 ans. Il repose au cimetière Montparnasse (Division 7, XIV° arrondissement, Paris). On peut lire sur sa tombe l’épithaphe suivante : Unconcerned, but not indifferent (Pas concerné, mais pas indifférent.). Pour rendre hommage à l’homme qui prétendait que la photographie était le mode d’expression du fantastique, nous avons choisi une gueule de loup, un mode d'expression fantastique a elle toute seule.
"Man Ray, qui a apprivoisé les plus grands yeux du monde, rêve à sa façon avec des porte-couteaux et des salières : il donne un sens à la lumière et voilà qu'elle sait parler." - Louis Aragon
"Kiki de Montparnasse ! Je dis que photographier un nu demandait un effort extraordinaire, plus le modèle était beau, plus il était difficile de créer quelque chose qui rendît justice à sa beauté." - Man Ray
"Je photographie ce que je ne désire pas peindre, et je peins ce que je ne peux pas photographier." - Man Ray
"Vive Man Ray qui a toujours songé à tuer la plastique pour créer un univers régi par ses lois propres, ou mieux encore par des lois à transformation, ce qui vient à nier l’existence même de toute loi !" - Georges Ribemont-Dessaignes
"Souscrivez à Dada, le seul emprunt qui ne rapporte rien. Dada se charge de la police à pédales et de la morale en sourdine. Dada ne sent rien, il n'est rien." - Tristan Tzara
"Toute opinion est transitoire et toute oeuvre est permanente." - Man Ray
Notes of biography
Emmanuel Rudnitsky was born in 1890 in Philadelphia (United States). He practiced various professions and in the same time studied drawing at the Centre Ferrer of New York (1910-1911). In 1911 he took the pen name Man Ray. He settled down for a while in an artists' community (New Jersey, on 1913).
His first personal exhibition was organized in 1915. During this current year, he struck up an acquaintance with Marcel Duchamp. They made sometimes common work. Duchamp presented him the Dadaists after his arrival in Paris, in 1921. Man Ray became famous quickly, as a worldly portrait painter as well as a photographer of mode and advertisement. However, he continued to lead a work of artist.
In 1924, he got closer to surrealists and participated in various exhibitions of the group. He published (in 1937, with André Breton) the manifesto «The photography is not the art ». He left France (1940) for eleven long years in the beginnings of the war. Man Ray came back to Paris in 1951; he died there in 1976. From 1915, Man Ray used the photography to reproduce his painting or to be used as point of departure. He made numerous abstract collages, built strange assemblings, and created, in the 20s, "dada-objects". Man Ray will invent (1921) a photographic process which allowed totake the imprint of an object without equipment, discovered the solarisation which allowed the accentuation of outlines by black lines. Photographer, surrealist painter, he came to the abstraction towards the end of 1950s without ever abandoning the construction of his improper assemblings.
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Some were created in lithographic technic, most are simple offset reproductions. They are many those who like collecting these rectangles of paper, monochrome or in games of colours, in matt paper or brilliant, with many words or almost dumb.
We are happy also to be able to greet, by this pages, mythical galleries as those of Denise René, Louis Carré, Claude Bernard, Berheim Jeune, Maeght, Pierre Loeb and others.
Complete work(s)
Complete work(s)
*« Opera grafica », L. Anselmino, Ed. L. Anselmino, Turin, 1973
*« Man Ray, opera grafica », 2 Vol., L. Anselmino et B. M. Pilat, Ed. Marconi, Turin, 1973 et 1984
*« Catalogue raisonné des sculptures et des objets », J. H Martin, Editions Sers, 1983
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Bibliographic track and more
To read about the artist :
- « Man Ray, portraits », L. Fritz Gruber, Ed. Prisma, 1963
- « Man Ray, soixante ans de liberté », A. Schwarz, Lossfeld, 1971
- « Man Ray », R. Penrose, Ed. du Chêne, 1975
- « Man Ray, american artist », N. Baldwin, A. da Capo Paperback, 1988
- « Man Ray's celebrity photos », Dover Publications, 1996
- « Man Ray - La photographie à l'envers », A. Sayag et autres, Ed. Seuil, 1998
- « The essential Man Ray », Ingrid Schaffner, Ed. Harry N. Abrams, 2003
- « Man Ray: Women », Valerio Dehò, Ed. Damiani, 2006
- « Man Ray », E. De l'Ecotais, K. Wa, Ed. Taschen, 2007
- « Man Ray », Guido Gomis, Marco Franciolli, Ed. Skira, 2011
To read from the artist :
- « Autoportrait », Robert Laffont, Paris, 1964 / rééd. Seghers,1986
- « Ce que je suis et autres textes », coll. Arts et esthétique, Ed. Hoëbeke, 1998
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Stamp by Rudnitsky Man Ray
The publication of a postal stamp is often a homage paid by a nation to a place, an event, a remarkable cause or a character which count. The painters and other artists do not escape from this rule. Some are however "forgotten" of postal art. Here, gathered below (French or foreign), emitted stamps (206) or simple studies of stamp (224) in homage to the artists represented on our website. The first French stamp was emitted in 1849, England preceded us by ten years. There is often a share of voyage in this small form of shape paper. The stamp circulates, sails, flies away, it makes dream, then dream a little. M.C.
When the stamp is really emitted, the artist name is preceded of an asterisk (*). It is certain that we do not know each stamp emitted for such or such artist; do not hesitate with us to make known them!
Discover all the stamps
+ Autograph
Signed letter by the artist
Document in reproduction / This document is not for sale
+ Listen
Listen
+ Watch
Watch
+ A tribute to...
See all the tribute pages...
A tribute to Rudnitsky Man Ray
Sorry this section is only available in french for now.
Emmanuel Radnitzky, dit Man Ray, est mort à Paris le 18 novembre 1976 ; il avait 86 ans. Il repose au cimetière Montparnasse (Division 7, XIV° arrondissement, Paris). On peut lire sur sa tombe l’épithaphe suivante : Unconcerned, but not indifferent (Pas concerné, mais pas indifférent.). Pour rendre hommage à l’homme qui prétendait que la photographie était le mode d’expression du fantastique, nous avons choisi une gueule de loup, un mode d'expression fantastique a elle toute seule.
"Man Ray, qui a apprivoisé les plus grands yeux du monde, rêve à sa façon avec des porte-couteaux et des salières : il donne un sens à la lumière et voilà qu'elle sait parler." - Louis Aragon
"Kiki de Montparnasse ! Je dis que photographier un nu demandait un effort extraordinaire, plus le modèle était beau, plus il était difficile de créer quelque chose qui rendît justice à sa beauté." - Man Ray
"Je photographie ce que je ne désire pas peindre, et je peins ce que je ne peux pas photographier." - Man Ray
"Vive Man Ray qui a toujours songé à tuer la plastique pour créer un univers régi par ses lois propres, ou mieux encore par des lois à transformation, ce qui vient à nier l’existence même de toute loi !" - Georges Ribemont-Dessaignes
"Souscrivez à Dada, le seul emprunt qui ne rapporte rien. Dada se charge de la police à pédales et de la morale en sourdine. Dada ne sent rien, il n'est rien." - Tristan Tzara
"Toute opinion est transitoire et toute oeuvre est permanente." - Man Ray
Art movements
+ PHOTOGRAPHY BETWEEN WARS / 1918-1939 / Robert Tatlin, Alexandre Rodchenko, etc.
+ SURREALISM / 1924-1969 / Marcel Duchamp, Dora Maar, Kurt Schwitters, Taro Okamoto, Antonio Berni, etc.
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