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JUDAH L.

MAGNES MUSEUM
2911 Russell Street
Berkeley, CA 94705
510.549.6950 Fax 510.849.3673
www.magnes.org

Studio Man Ray


Photographs by Ira Nowinski
March 5, 2007–August 5, 2007

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.

Partial list of objects in the exhibition

Ira Nowinski, Silver print, Le Violon d’Ingres, with variation of It’s


Springtime and parts of various objects, 1983, Gelatin silver print.
Copyright 2007 Man Ray Trust/ADAGP

Ira Nowinski, Various objects on Le Beau Temps wall, 1983, Gelatin


silver print. Copyright 2007 Man Ray Trust/ADAGP

Ira Nowinski, Leather shadow, 1983, Gelatin silver print. Copyright


2007 Man Ray Trust/ADAGP

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Ira Nowinski, Mezzanine table with lamp, pipes, antique iron, and
Café Man Ray, 1983, Gelatin silver print. Copyright 2007 Man Ray
Trust/ADAGP

Ira Nowinski, Back shelf wall near kitchen with matchbox picture,
1983, Gelatin silver print. Copyright 2007 Man Ray Trust/ADAGP

Ira Nowinski, Surrealist library, with hand made book by Brassaï,


1983, Gelatin silver print (2002). 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, Danger Haute Tension, hand painted sign on vestibule


door, 1983, Gelatin silver print. Copyright 2007 Man Ray
Trust/ADAGP

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Ira Nowinski, Couch with photo of Marcel Duchamp and Man Ray,
1983, Gelatin silver print. Copyright 2007 Man Ray Trust/ADAGP

Ira Nowinski, Couch with Le Manche dans la Manche and various


objects, 1983, Gelatin silver print. Copyright 2007 Man Ray
Trust/ADAGP

Ira Nowinski, Bedroom with L’Observatoire and two paintings, one of


Juliet, 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, Imaginary portrait of the Marquis de Sade, 1983,


Gelatin silver print. Copyright 2007 Man Ray Trust/ADAGP

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Ira Nowinski, Mezzanine with tax box, various nails, 1983, Gelatin
silver print. Copyright 2007 Man Ray Trust/ADAGP

Ira Nowinski, Objects on shelf wall, 1983, Gelatin silver print.


Copyright 2007 Man Ray Trust/ADAGP

Ira Nowinski, Books, Rome Prize, Hommage a Sade, 1983, Gelatin


silver print. Copyright 2007 Man Ray Trust/ADAGP

Ira Nowinski, View of studio from mezzanine, with parachute that


covered main space, 1983, Gelatin silver print. Copyright 2007 Man
Ray Trust/ADAGP

Ira Nowinski, The painting Le Beau Temps, with photographs, objects,


and lithograph of L’Observatoire, 1983, Gelatin silver print. Copyright
2007 Man Ray Trust/ADAGP

Ira Nowinski, Surrealist library detail, 1983, Gelatin silver print.


Copyright 2007 Man Ray Trust/ADAGP

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Ira Nowinski, Photograph of Juliet and Man Ray, Los Angeles circa 1940s.
Chess board painting, 1983, Giclée print on canvas (2007) . Copyright 2007
Man Ray Trust/ADAGP

Ira Nowinski, Rue Férou façade, 1983, Gelatin silver print. Copyright 2007
Man Ray Trust/ADAGP

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