# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/man-ray
# Generated: 2026-09-01T13:02:53.061Z

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url: "https://fame.am/person/man-ray"
name: "Man Ray"
slug: "man-ray"
description: "He turned darkroom accidents into a signature medium, renamed photograms after himself, and moved between Dada and Surrealism without signing up for either—a painter who became famous for the photographs he claimed were secondary."
tagline: "American and French visual artist (1890–1976)"
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profileType:
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birthDate: "1890-08-27"
deathDate: "1976-11-18"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Emmanuel Radnitzky was born in Brooklyn in August 1890 and crossed the Atlantic to settle in Paris, where he spent most of his working life and eventually took French citizenship. He orbited the Dada and Surrealist circles without formal membership, keeping one foot out even as he shaped both movements. He worked across media—painting, sculpture, film—but always insisted painting was his true calling, even as his fashion shoots and portraits paid the bills and his rayographs, cameraless images made by placing objects on light-sensitive paper, secured his place in the canon. He died in Paris in November 1976, having spent decades insisting the world had it backward about what mattered in his work.