Man Ray was born as Emmanuel Radintsky. He began as an artist but fell in love with the camera when he first started using it to document his artwork. He was considered a Dadist but his fellow dadists didn't see him as a true dadist. He focused his photography work in photograms and portraits. He also was a pioneer in the discovery and creation of photo special effects.
He specialized in pictographs, which he called rayographs, that was done by exposing photo paper to light while being covered by objects. This creates shadow pictures in reverse where the silhouette is white or shades of grey and all else is black. His portraits usually focused on one of two things, the female figure and celebrities in the literary and art world.
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