Man Ray portraits on view
Works by the renowned American avant-garde photographer Man Ray are on display in Tenerife until April 5.
Included in the exhibition of 87 photographs at the Caja Canarias Sala de Arte y Cultura in Plaza de la Concepcion, La Laguna, are portraits of such famous 20th century figures as Picasso, Einstein, Dali, Ava Gardner, Catherine Deneuve and Ernest Hemingway.
Though born in Philadelphia in 1890, Man Ray first honed his artistic talent in New York before spending the biggest part of his working life in Paris in the 1920s and 1930s, where his reputation as a fashion and portrait photographer was made, though he preferred to think of himself as an artist.
He went back to the States in 1940 and stayed there until the war ended, returning to his beloved Paris after hostilities ceased and died there in 1976.
The exhibition also includes some of Man Ray’s pioneering ‘rayographs’, a process he is credited with inventing that involves the creation of a photographic image without the use of a camera.
He placed objects on a light sensitive material such as photographic paper and exposed them to light, creating a negative image that very much resembles an X-ray.
The exhibition is open Mondays to Fridays 11am-1pm and 5-9pm and on Saturdays 11am-2pm and 5-8pm.