Disks

Photography and Media

c. 1930/40

Man Ray (Emmanuel Radnitzky)
American, 1890–1976

Status: Currently Off View
Department: Photography and Media

Artist: Man Ray (Emmanuel Radnitzky)
Title: Disks
Place: United States (Artist's nationality:)
Date Dates are not always precisely known, but the Art Institute strives to present this information as consistently and legibly as possible. Dates may be represented as a range that spans decades, centuries, dynasties, or periods and may include qualifiers such as c. (circa) or BCE.: Made 1930–1940
Medium: Gelatin silver photogram
Inscriptions: Inscribed recto, on mount, lower right, below image, in graphite: "Man Ray"; verso unchecked
Dimensions: Image/paper: 23.4 × 17.7 cm (9 1/4 × 7 in.); Mount: 32.5 × 26 cm (12 13/16 × 10 1/4 in.)
Credit Line: Julien Levy Collection, Special Photography Acquisition Fund
Reference Number: 1979.98
Copyright: © 2018 Man Ray Trust / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York / ADAGP, Paris

Krauss, Rosalind and Jane Livingston. 1985. “L’Amour Fou-Photography and Surrealism.” Exh. cat. Cross River Press, Ltd. p. 50. fig. 42.

Art Institute of Chicago, “Photographs from the Julien Levy Collection: Starting with Atget,” December 11, 1976–February 20, 1977; traveled to the International Center of Photography, New York, April 21-May 29, 1977; San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, November 4-December 18 1977; Fogg Museum, Cambridge, Massachusetts, January 13-Ferbruary 26, 1978; Lakeview Center for the Arts and Sciences, Peoria, Illinois, March 16-April 30, 1978; and Cincinnati Art Museum, November 17-December 24, 1978. (David Travis)
Washington, D.C., Corcoran Gallery, “L’Amour Fou: Photography and Surrealism,” September 14, 1985–November 17, 1985; traveled to San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, December 13, 1985–February, 1986; Paris, France, Centre Georges Pompidou, April 15–June 16, 1985; London, England, Hayward Gallery, July 10–October 3, 1986.
Art Institute of Chicago, “Object as Subject,” February 17–May 20, 2001. (David Travis)

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