Man Ray (1890-1976) was best known as a photographer, mostly of fashion and portraits. Many of his photographs appeared in the French Vogue. He also made photograms, named rayographs by Tristan Tzara in reference to their creator. Man Ray took several objects, like a comb, a spiral of cut paper etc., then he transformed some of them and put them together in front of a light-sensitive surface, like photographic paper, and exposed them to light. He explained the concept was pure Dadaism, based on rejection and abstraction. He published a selection of his rayographs as Champs délicieux in December 1922. He also adapted the technique to his film Le Retour à La Raison in 1923.

Man Ray (Emmanuel Radnitzky)
Untitled with a spring
1922

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