Male Torso
Man Ray American
Not on view
Man Ray experimented with photographic techniques throughout his artistic career. In this image, the delineation of a man’s muscular torso appears outlined by a bold black line, separating the precisely rendered details of his body from the flat background. Man Ray achieved this effect through a process called solarization, in which an image recorded on a negative or photographic print is wholly or partially reversed in tone. Thus, the photograph possesses the peculiar union of otherworldliness and realism characteristic of Surrealist photography.
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