Professional Documents
Culture Documents
MAGNES MUSEUM
2911 Russell Street
Berkeley, CA 94705
510.549.6950 Fax 510.849.3673
www.magnes.org
Man Ray was born Emmanuel Radnitzky in Philadelphia and raised in Brooklyn. In 1911, the
Radnitzky family changed their surname to Ray in reaction to the ethnic discrimination and
anti-Semitism. In 1921 Man Ray moved to Paris where he made his living as a professional
fashion and portrait photographer while radicalizing the use of photography in the context
of Dada and Surrealist movements. He became internationally famous as the photographer
of Parisian artists between the wars.
This exhibition will display San Francisco photographer Ira Nowinski’s documentation of
Man Ray’s studio inside and out, preserving the Paris studio on film exactly as it had been
during Man Ray’s final days. Several of Man Ray’s three-dimensional works will be on loan
from Stephen Wirtz of the Stephen Wirtz Gallery in San Francisco.
Ira Nowinski, Back shelf wall near kitchen with matchbox picture,
1983, Gelatin silver print. Copyright 2007 Man Ray Trust/ADAGP
Ira Nowinski, Eye, 1983, Gelatin silver print. Copyright 2007 Man
Ray Trust/ADAGP
Ira Nowinski, Darkroom with negative boxes and box of Agfa portrait
film, 1983, Gelatin silver print. Copyright 2007 Man Ray
Trust/ADAGP
Ira Nowinski, Shelf wall with various objects and drawings, 1983,
Gelatin silver print. Copyright 2007 Man Ray Trust/ADAGP
Ira Nowinski, Rue Férou façade, 1983, Gelatin silver print. Copyright 2007
Man Ray Trust/ADAGP