JUDAH L. MAGNES MUSEUM2911 Russell StreetBerkeley, CA 94705510.549.6950 Fax 510.849.3673www.magnes.org
Studio Man Ray Photographs by Ira Nowinski
March 5, 2007–August 5, 2007 Man Ray was born Emmanuel Radnitzky in Philadelphia and raised in Brooklyn. In 1911, theRadnitzky family changed their surname to Ray in reaction to the ethnic discrimination andanti-Semitism. In 1921 Man Ray moved to Paris where he made his living as a professionalfashion and portrait photographer while radicalizing the use of photography in the contextof Dada and Surrealist movements. He became internationally famous as the photographerof Parisian artists between the wars. This exhibition will display San Francisco photographer Ira Nowinski’s documentation of Man Ray’s studio inside and out, preserving the Paris studio on film exactly as it had beenduring Man Ray’s final days. Several of Man Ray’s three-dimensional works will be on loanfrom Stephen Wirtz of the Stephen Wirtz Gallery in San Francisco.
Partial list of objects in the exhibition
Ira Nowinski, Silver print,
Le Violon d’Ingres
, with variation of
It’sSpringtime
and parts of various objects, 1983, Gelatin silver print.Copyright 2007 Man Ray Trust/ADAGPIra Nowinski, Various objects on
Le
Beau Temps
wall, 1983, Gelatinsilver print. Copyright 2007 Man Ray Trust/ADAGPIra Nowinski, Leather shadow, 1983, Gelatin silver print. Copyright2007 Man Ray Trust/ADAGP
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