Aperture Masters: Man Ray esp finding his comedy and what

finding his comedy and what life is like on the road now

they are waylaid by surprising arrivals—a daughter for Pam and Daniel

January 1979

and Bob Bissett

Aperture Masters: Man Ray esp finding his comedy and what"I do not photograph nature, I photograph my fantasy," Man Ray proclaimed, and he found in the camera's eye and in light's magical chemistry the mechanisms for dreaming. Schooled as a painter and designer in New York, Man Ray turned to photography after discovering the 291 Gallery and its charismatic founder, Alfred Stieglitz. As a young expatriate in Paris during the twenties and thirties, Man Ray embraced Surrealism and Dadaism, creeds that