Fashion and Photography: The Man Ray Revolution

An exhibition at the Musée du Luxembourg in Paris throws the fashion photographs by the American artist Man Ray’s back into limelight. It retraces the creative effervescence of the 1920s and 30s, and looks back at the emergence of a genre now synonymous with reinvention and going back to the roots: fashion photography.

Man Ray, Untitled, 1925 © Man Ray 2015 Trust / Adagp, Paris 2020
Trained as a painter and later known as a photographer, Man Ray went back to his passion for drawing, as well as tried his hand at film and sculpture: whatever the medium, he ...

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