Man Ray (Emmanuel Radnitzky)
Rayograph

Rayograph

© Man Ray 2015 Trust / Artists Rights Society (ARS), NY / ADAGP, Paris

Rayograph
Rayograph
CultureAmerican
Titles
  • Rayograph
Date1927
MediumGelatin silver print, photogram
DimensionsImage: 11 15/16 × 9 15/16 in. (30.3 × 25.2 cm)
Sheet: 11 15/16 × 9 15/16 in. (30.3 × 25.2 cm)
Mount: 19 15/16 × 16 in. (50.6 × 40.6 cm)
Credit LineMuseum purchase funded by the Caroline Wiess Law Accessions Endowment Fund, The Manfred Heiting Collection
Object number2002.1576
Not on view

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Department
Photography
Object Type
DescriptionMan Ray, László Moholy-Nagy, and Christian Schad are recognized as early and influential exponents of photograms as a means of extended expression among the 20th-century avant-garde. As would be expected from his affiliation with the Dada and Surrealist movements, Man Ray’s personal variant of the photogram, which he called the “rayograph,” was less restrained, more suggestive, and enigmatic in the seemingly arbitrary way in which he selected and organized objects.
Provenanceex-collection Altmann, Paris; Galerie Rudolf Kicken, Cologne; Mr. Manfred Heiting; The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, 2002, 2002.1576.
Exhibition History"Alias Man Ray," The Jewish Museum, New York, November 15, 2009–March 14,2010.

"Utopia/ Dystopia: Construction and Destruction in Photography and Collage," Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, March 11–June 10, 2012.

"Man Ray's photography in the surrealist's Paris," Max Ernst Museum Brühl des LVR, Germany, September 15-December 8, 2013.

“Shadows on the Wall: Cameraless Photography from 1851 to Today,” The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, August 31–November 30, 2014.
Inscriptions, Signatures and Marks
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Recto, lower right, in pencil: "Man Ray 1927"

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