Portraits of a revolutionary

摘要

ONE-HAS to wonder how Emmanuel Radnitzky, better known by his adopted pseudonym Man Ray, would have reacted had he lived to see an exhibition in 2013 devoted solely to his photographic portraits. Man Ray was a practitioner of many art forms and his photography began as little more than a means of recording the other artwork he held in higher esteem. Later it became a job, as he took on commercial projects to supplement his income. Often dissatisfied with his results, he sought to escape what he viewed as the confines of photography by experimenting with printing and developing techniques. So why, despite this attitude, has his photography endured?