Man Ray : prophet of the avant-garde
(DVD or VCD)

A segment from the PBS television program American masters, originally produced in 1997.

Based on the book: Man Ray, American artist / Neil Baldwin.

Not rated.

Special features include essay by biographer Neil Baldwin: Man Ray and The Women He Loved, weblinks and production credits.

Photographers, Phillip Hurn ... [et al.] ; edited by Bryan McKenzie ; music supervision, John Adams, Rosie Fishell ; co-producer, William Cartwright ; senior producer, Tamar Hacker ; executive producer, Susan Lacy.

Narrator, Stockard Channing.

"Man Ray is the quintessential modernist figure: photographer, painter, object maker and collagist, filmmaker and printmaker, poet, essayist and philosopher. Born Emanuel Radnitsky in 1890, he went on to become the leader of the "American avant-garde" and the most enigmatic of the Dada-Surrealists who transformed the Paris art world during the ferment of the 1920's and beyond. This profile follows the creative genius from his youth in Brooklyn to his glory days in Paris and, finally, to his impact on future generations of artist in a variety of fields"--Container.

DVD.