The National Portrait Gallery, London

is currently presenting an exhibition on

the portrait photography of American photographic innovateur

Man Ray

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Participant in dadaism and surrealist artistic expression, friend and collaborator

with the literary and artistic lights of 1920s/1930s Parisian intellectual community,

Man Ray invented the photographic technique – solarisation,

which transformed and elevated the photographic arts.

A solarised print reverses tonal quality of an image:

light areas present dark; dark areas present light.

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Man Ray, self portrait with camera – solarised print, 1930

(image from wsj.com)

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Man Ray :

avant-garde

innovator

inventor

visionary

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National Portrait Gallery – London

until 27 May 2013

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