Man Ray and fashion.
NMR| N° d'inventaire | 22252 |
| Format | 19.5 x 27.5 |
| Détails | 248 p., hardcover. |
| Publication | Leave, 2019 |
| Etat | Nine |
| ISBN | 9782711874309 |
It was in 1922, when he had just arrived in Paris, that Man Ray took his first steps in fashion photography. He then produced numerous portraits of prominent figures in a Parisian milieu mixing members of the American colony, representatives of high society, artists, writers... He quickly benefited from commissions in the fields of advertising and fashion due to his easily identifiable style, that of the surrealist group, which plays wonderfully with scandal and provocation. His perfectly mastered work, tempered by a classicism of good taste, spiced with a smooth eroticism, generates images fully assimilated by his patrons. At the turn of the 1930s, Man Ray evolved towards a more spontaneous style, in line with the evolution of the female model that technical artifices - solarization, negative inversion, cutting, superimpositions - brilliantly highlight. The years spent under contract with the American magazine Harper's Bazaar (1934-1939) confirmed the photographer's technical and formal freedom and marked his peak in this field. Through the eyes of an artist, painter, and photographer, the relationship between the fashion of an entire era, that of the interwar period, and its representation are also highlighted here.
It was in 1922, when he had just arrived in Paris, that Man Ray took his first steps in fashion photography. He then produced numerous portraits of prominent figures in a Parisian milieu mixing members of the American colony, representatives of high society, artists, writers... He quickly benefited from commissions in the fields of advertising and fashion due to his easily identifiable style, that of the surrealist group, which plays wonderfully with scandal and provocation. His perfectly mastered work, tempered by a classicism of good taste, spiced with a smooth eroticism, generates images fully assimilated by his patrons. At the turn of the 1930s, Man Ray evolved towards a more spontaneous style, in line with the evolution of the female model that technical artifices - solarization, negative inversion, cutting, superimpositions - brilliantly highlight. The years spent under contract with the American magazine Harper's Bazaar (1934-1939) confirmed the photographer's technical and formal freedom and marked his peak in this field. Through the eyes of an artist, painter, and photographer, the relationship between the fashion of an entire era, that of the interwar period, and its representation are also highlighted here.