The Cleveland Museum of Art
Collection Online as of April 18, 2024
Untitled (Rayograph)
1926–1928
(American, 1890–1976)
Image: 16.5 x 12.3 cm (6 1/2 x 4 13/16 in.)
John L. Severance Fund 2007.91
© 2013 Man Ray Trust / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York / ADAGP, Paris
Location: not on view
Description
The photogram process produces a unique print, which can be a problem if the image turns out to be popular, like this one. The solution, which Man Ray used here, is to make a negative of the photogram, probably by photographing it, and make multiple prints from that negative. The inclusion of two light sources—a candle and an industrial lighting tube—underline the central role of light in photograms and indeed, all photography. The tiny glass beads appear in a photogram section of Man Ray’s 1923 film Le Retour à la raison.- (Zabriskie Gallery, New York, NY)(Edwynn Houk Gallery, New York, NY)David Raymond [b.1979], New York, NY2007-The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
- Cleveland Museum of Art, Tom E. Hinson, Ian Walker, and Lisa Kurzner. Forbidden Games: Surrealist and Modernist Photography : the David Raymond Collection in the Cleveland Museum of Art. 2014. Reproduced: p. 80; mentioned p. 81; reproduced and mentioned: p. 226.
- Forbidden Games: Surrealist and Modernist Photography. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (October 19, 2014-January 11, 2015).
- {{cite web|title=Untitled (Rayograph)|url=false|author=Man Ray|year=1926–1928|access-date=18 April 2024|publisher=Cleveland Museum of Art}}
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