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Title: Man Ray (TASCHEN Icons Series) by Emmanuelle De L'Ecotais, Manfred Heiting, Taschen ISBN: 3-8228-5556-1 Publisher: TASCHEN America Llc Pub. Date: 15 June, 2001 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $9.99 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.14 (7 reviews)
Rating: 3
Summary: Good, but not an introduction for beginners
Comment: This small book is part of a vague series called Icons by Taschen. They are a dim reflection on some of their larger works.
This book is definitely not for beginners, not meant to be an introduction to Man Ray. However, it has some value for people familiar with Man Ray, Andre Breton and/or Dada. Think of it as material for art history or food for thought about the time.
Do yourself a favor and don't try to learn about Man Ray from this book or any of the enthusiastic or overblown "reviews" of it. Start with something more comprehensive.
If and when you already know about Man Ray and where he fits, get this book and carry it around when you want to feed your head a little. It is nicely done and fills that need very well.
For those unfamiliar with Man Ray, he is not primarily known as a photographer and never intended to be. It is probably the ease of publishing his photographs that has distracted people to thinking of him this way. Don't miss the rest of his work, especially his writing. Read his autobiography and use his photographs as a "program" to identify the players, perhaps.
Rating: 5
Summary: The original is still the master.
Comment: Man Ray used photography as painterly art, not photojournalism. Time spent with each plate provides a vista to questions, epiphanies, riddles, personality or beauty. His nudes are utterly refreshing in a time when women are photographed as blank "hey baby, what's your number" objects. (Ruth Bernhard also recommended.)
Add this book to your collection for the plates alone, but the accompanying essays are terrific. Better yet, visit the mind-expanding collection at the Getty in Los Angeles.
Rating: 3
Summary: kind of disappointing
Comment: I bought this book expecting it to be a basic guide on Man Ray's work. The problem is it happens to be a little too basic. You can't find Man Ray's most expressive work, except for "Tears" (only on the cover), "Le Violin d'Ingres", "Mask of Woman", "Le Priere" and a few Rayographs. It seems to be a biographic record instead of an art book, although it doesn't blur the genius of Man Ray's photographs.
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Title: Andre Kertesz by Andre Kertesz, Carole Kismaric ISBN: 0893817406 Publisher: Aperture Pub. Date: 30 September, 1997 List Price(USD): $12.50 |
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Title: Weegee by Weegee, Allene Talmey ISBN: 089381749X Publisher: Aperture Pub. Date: 30 September, 1997 List Price(USD): $12.50 |
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Title: Henri Cartier-Bresson by Henri Cartier-Bresson ISBN: 0893817449 Publisher: Aperture Pub. Date: 30 September, 1997 List Price(USD): $12.50 |
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Title: Edward Weston by Edward Weston, R. H. Cravens ISBN: 0893817473 Publisher: Aperture Pub. Date: 30 September, 1997 List Price(USD): $12.50 |
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Title: Alfred Stieglitz : Aperture Masters of Photography by Alfred Stieglitz, Dorothy Norman ISBN: 0893817457 Publisher: Aperture Pub. Date: 30 September, 1997 List Price(USD): $12.50 |
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