Man Ray—the American artist and photographer who all but defined the early 20th-century Paris art scene—is associated with many things. He’s associated with Surrealism and Dada, and the likes of ...

In Paris in the 1930s, there were few artists as influential as Man Ray. A pioneer of Surrealist photography, the American expat's use of modernist techniques to create groundbreaking images ...

American born, but spending most of his career in Paris, visual artist Man Ray contributed greatly to the Dada and Surrealist movements, and even though he above all considered himself a painter, he ...

The 86-year-old Man Ray had outlived most of his closest contemporaries when he died in Paris in 1976. Tristan Tzara, the impresario of Dada, conked off on Christmas Day 1963. André Breton, the petty ...

But at the same time, the very promise of truthfulness invited falsification, especially in the course of the 20th century, starting with relatively amateurish efforts such as hoax photos of fairies ...