Man Ray

By Sidtharth Sureshkumar

Man Ray• Man Ray was a painter, photographer and filmmaker (1890–1976). His

parents were Jewish immigrants from Russia. His family moved to Brooklyn when Ray was a young child. When he finished high school in 1908, he followed his passion for art; he studied drawing with Robert Henri at the Ferrer Center, and frequented Alfred Stieglitz's gallery 291. Ray used a similar style, snapping images that provided an unvarnished look at the subject. His experiments with photography included rediscovering how to make "camera-less" pictures, which he called rayographs. These photos were made by placing and manipulating objects on pieces of photosensitive paper. Ray experimented with a technique called the Sabatier effect, or solarization, which adds a silvery, ghostly quality to the image.

My Work - Solarization

Curves – ‘V’ shaped curve Curves – Upside Down “V’ shaped curve

Curves – ‘W’ shaped curve

Curves – Input shift curve Curves – Output shift curve Curves – Red channel curve

Curves – Green channel curve Curves – Blue channel curve Black and White filter

Rayographs

Black and White filter Curves – ‘V’ shaped curve Curves – Upside Down “V’ shaped curve

Curves – ‘W’ shaped curve Curves – Input shift curve Curves – Output shift curve

Curves – Red channel curve Curves – Green channel curve Curves – Blue channel curve