Man Ray by Olivia Duval

May Ray was an American artist who was a painted and photographer and most known for his contribution to the Dada and Surrealist movements. He was most famous for his photographs in fashion and portrait photography. In the 1920s and 30s, he was a fashion photographer for Harper's Bazaar, Vu, and Vogue and experimented with using the medium in different methods. One approach was producing images directly from ordinary objects on photosensitive paper that were usually arranged in an arbitrary way. He called this method the "rayograph." He also used the solarization process to some of his work which is a combination of negative and positive images. He spent a lot of his life in Paris and returned there and focused on painting at the end of his life.