Where was man ray born

Paris was at the cen­ter of artis­tic fer­ment after World War I, and it was here that Man Ray estab­lished him­self as a pre­em­i­nent prac­ti­tion­er of Dada and as a major fig­ure in the avant-garde art move­ment.

In this brisk biog­ra­phy, Arthur Lubow, a jour­nal­ist and author of Diane Arbus: Por­trait ofa Pho­tog­ra­ph­er, recre­ates that peri­od and Man Ray’s place in it.

Born Emmanuel Rad­nit­sky in Philadel­phia in 1890, Man Ray grew up in Brook­lyn.

As soon as he was able, he left his fam­i­ly home and main­tained very lit­tle con­nec­tion with his sib­lings and par­ents, mak­ing every effort to erase his background.

As a child, Man Ray sketched and drew and in high school honed his skill in mechan­i­cal draw­ing.

Join­ing a group of anar­chist thinkers and artists, Man Ray fre­quent­ed Edward Ste­ichen and Alfred Steiglitz’s influ­en­tial gallery at 291 Fifth Avenue, which