Man Ray(1890-1976)
- Director
- Cinematographer
- Writer
American painter and artist in various media who participated in a few
films. He helped found the Dada movement and was the prime American
participant in the Surrealist movement. An American expatriate to Paris
in the 1920s, he was a member of the so-called "Lost Generation" of
creative minds associated with that time and place. His art encompassed
not only painting but photography and collage. He acted for René Clair in
one film and was assistant director to Marcel Duchamp on another. He directed
a few films of a surrealist nature in the 1920s.