MAN RAY & FASHION
Free, inventive, surrealist, Man Ray controlshisartistic life by concealing all professionalactivitiesthatcould damage hisreputation – includingfashionphotography, whichheconsiders a minor activity.
Encouraged by the French couturier Paul Poiret, Man Ray times photography and participates in the development of fashion, through pictures dedicated to women. He published his portraits in Vogue, Vanity Fair, and Harper’s Bazaar, making him famous in 1930. The greatest couturiers call on him – from Coco Chanel to Madeleine Vionnet.
Reframing, playing with shadows, photomontages, Color Grading…Man Ray experiments with the craziest techniques and colors women with a dreamlike eroticism.
The Musée du Luxembourg allows us to discover a little-known facet of the artist, through a series of compositions on the borders of art, fashion, and advertising.