MAN RAY
Man Ray revolutionised the art of photography. He pursued a very different path to his fellow photographers. He reached the height of his career in the mid 1930s, especially due to the appearance of his photographis in Harpers Bazaar.
Man Ray would tilt his easel when enlarging a picture to create a startlingly elongated silhouette of a model and costume or, using the technique known as solarisation, expose a partly exposed picture to reverse some tones - black for white and white for black. Man Ray's furthest out innovation was something he called a rayograph - a picture made in the darkroom by placing various objects on a piece of printing paper and briefly exposing it to light.