Word: rays
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Majestic over night. Newshawks pressed into his cabin to find him warming himself against an electric radiator. He told them pleasant nothings. Was he afraid London's climate would hurt his health? "Ah, you're trying to lead me into an interview," declared the benign Ambassador. Counselor Ray Atherton of the London Embassy who had come down to meet his new chief, replied for him with a determined...
Before a U. S. tourist can consume more than three saucers' worth of refreshment* at a Montparnasse cafe nowadays he is sure to hear something about Man Ray, a kinky-haired photographer who has become a leader of Paris's left bank intelligentsia. The first one-man showing of his prints opened at Manhattan's Julien Levy Gallery last week...
...What Man Ray's real name is was hard to discover last week. Art dealers racked their memory, decided that it was Emanuel something, probably Raveninsky. As Man Ray he has been known since he came from Philadelphia over 20 years ago. His first exhibition of paintings was held at the Daniel Gallery in 1915. At that time he was an ardent cubist and bewildered conservative critics with his angularities. In 1921 he went to Paris, where he has remained. He gave up Cubism for Dadaism, Dadaism for Surrealism, finally gave up painting almost entirely for photography. His Surrealist shots...
...ballerina in the Paris opera). Also exhibited were views of assorted sections of his favorite model, Miss Lee Miller, known as "Lee-Girl" to her intimates, widely celebrated as the possessor of the most beautiful navel in Paris. She too is a photographer, has taken many pictures of Man Ray...
Critics found Man Ray's photographs not quite worth all the furor that friends have raised. Most interesting were a series of black & grey abstractions known as rayograms which are made without a camera, simply by placing various objects on sensitized paper in a dark room, ex- posing them briefly to a single ray of light...