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Exhibitions, Fall 2010 Man Ray
Organized by International Arts & Artists, Washington DC Man Ray, African Art, and the Modernist Lens brings to light photographs of African objects by American artist Man Ray (1890–1976) produced over a period of almost twenty years. In addition to providing fresh insight into Man Ray’s photographic practice, the exhibition raises questions concerning the representation, reception, and perception of African art as mediated by the camera lens and features photographs by Man Ray from the 1920s and 1930s and by his international avant-garde contemporaries such as Charles Sheeler, Walker Evans, Alfred Stieglitz, and André Kertész. For the first time, a number of these photographs are presented alongside the original African objects they feature. The juxtaposition offers a rare opportunity to encounter first-hand how various photographic techniques of framing, lighting, camera angle, and cropping evoke radically different interpretations of these objects. Books, avant-garde journals, and popular magazines also on display illustrate how these photographs circulated and promoted ideas about African art and culture to an international audience. Organized into four sections, the exhibition frames the objects and images within diverse contexts, including the Harlem Renaissance, Surrealism, and the worlds of high fashion and popular culture. A 200-page catalogue accompanies the exhibition. The exhibition is funded in part by the Terra Foundation for American Art, the National Endowment for the Arts as part of the American Masterpieces program, and the Dedalus Foundation, Inc. Man Ray is made possible at U.Va. through the generous support of the U.Va. Art Museum Volunteer Board, the Eugene V. and Clare E. Thaw Charitable Trust, Anonymous donor, Arts Enhancement, Arts Council, Arts$, Precision Sports Surfaces, Inc., The Carl H. and Martha S. Lindner Center for Art History, Carter G. Woodson Institute for African American and African Studies, Corcoran Department of History, Albemarle Magazine, The Hook, and The Links, Inc. 
Man Ray Film Series
Man Ray Film Screening Thursday, September 16 In collaboration with UVaM's Man Ray: African Art & the Modernist Lens exhibition, The Bridge Progressive Arts Initiative, a non-profit arts organization in the Belmont neighborhood, is hosting Man Ray Film Screening. The screening will be an evening of 16mm films focusing not only Man Ray's enduring legacy in experimental film but also on contemporary experimental filmmakers' use of Africa as a means of reflecting on the spatial and temporal experiences of late modernity.
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