#FMP Research – Man Ray

“I would photograph an idea rather than an object, a dream rather than an idea.”

-Man Ray

Glass tears (Les Larmes), 1932

His works are sometimes more like art than photography. This work gave me a lot of thinking and imagination, first because of the big round teardrop, second because of the close up view, there’s no more element to tell people what happened behind it. For me, there are two ways to explain this tear, the first one which is the one I prefer, she was too sad and condensed the glass tear, but what happened to her to shed such tears? It;s more beautiful than a real tear, but also never goes away because of the sadness. The second is that although her eyes were sad, but perhaps just lament, these are his tears for her.

 

Yesterday, Today, Tomorrow. 1924

I can clearly see the tittle meaning from the picture, he made it in a very direct way to express what he was talking about. The picture gave me feeling that, in the same place, same person, same position, the exposure means the left side is yesterday, middle is today dan right is tomorrow, but in the end the three become one, expressing whatever yesterday, today or tomorrow, but all are current/now.

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