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Dialogue: 0,0:00:00.08,0:00:05.62,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,In 1915 in New York, a young painter\Nnamed Man Ray was introduced to the artist Marcel Duchamp.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:08.00,0:00:13.94,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But Man Ray spoke no French, and Duchamp\Nknew little English, so they played a game of tennis.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:14.98,0:00:18.14,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Duchamp scandalized\Nthe art world in 1917
Dialogue: 0,0:00:18.34,0:00:22.84,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,when he anonymously submitted an\Nordinary plumbing fixture to an art exhibition.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:23.78,0:00:28.92,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,This was one of several everyday\Nobjects Duchamp presented as art and called readymades.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:30.63,0:00:34.25,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The two of them shared ideas,\Nand Man Ray began experimenting,
Dialogue: 0,0:00:34.71,0:00:37.90,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,making art from whatever materials\Nwere lying around his studio.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:38.95,0:00:42.09,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,He had initially taken up the\Ncamera to photograph his own work,
Dialogue: 0,0:00:42.09,0:00:46.80,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,but now he began making evocative\Npictures of ordinary objects, in a sense,
Dialogue: 0,0:00:46.80,0:00:50.06,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,a photographic answer\Nto Duchamp's readymades.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:51.40,0:00:56.54,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,In 1920, he photographed a kitchen mixer\Nand an assemblage of objects from his darkroom.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:56.100,0:01:00.14,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,He called these two\Npictures Man and Woman.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:01.24,0:01:04.49,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The two artists produced\Nmany works in collaboration,
Dialogue: 0,0:01:04.64,0:01:08.74,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and Man Ray helped Duchamp\Ncreate his alter ego, Eros St. Lave.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:11.28,0:01:15.38,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But Duchamp returned to France,\Nand Man Ray found himself out of sorts.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:16.24,0:01:19.62,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,In 1921, he too\Nset sail for Paris.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:19.100,0:01:24.32,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,There he was taken in by a group\Nof poets, artists, and anarchists who admired
Dialogue: 0,0:01:24.32,0:01:27.49,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and embraced his work\Nin ways New York had not.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:27.84,0:01:33.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Still, in the midst of this thriving culture\Nof creative thinkers, he struggled to make a living.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:33.46,0:01:36.50,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,To support himself,\Nhe took up portrait photography.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:36.74,0:01:39.88,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,If I'd had the nerve, I'd have\Nbecome a thief or a gangster.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:40.11,0:01:43.25,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Since I didn't,\NI became a photographer.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:43.74,0:01:47.09,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The writers, the intellectuals,\Nand artists living in Paris at that time
Dialogue: 0,0:01:47.09,0:01:50.16,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,began to seek him out\Nto have their portraits taken.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:50.30,0:01:54.22,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Once, when working in the darkroom,\Nhe made an accidental discovery when he dropped an
Dialogue: 0,0:01:54.22,0:01:57.47,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,unexposed sheet\Ninto the developer.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:58.20,0:02:02.64,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Regretting the waste of paper,\NI mechanically placed a small glass funnel
Dialogue: 0,0:02:02.64,0:02:07.58,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to graduate in the thermometer\Non the wetted paper. I turned on the light.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:09.90,0:02:13.100,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Before my eyes an image began to form,\Nnot quite a simple silhouette,
Dialogue: 0,0:02:14.75,0:02:18.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,but distorted and\Nrefracted by the glass.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:19.10,0:02:23.12,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Taking whatever objects came to hand,\Nmy hotel room key, a handkerchief,
Dialogue: 0,0:02:23.57,0:02:26.63,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,some pencils, a brush,\Na candle, a piece of twine,
Dialogue: 0,0:02:27.49,0:02:32.07,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I made a few more prints,\Nexcitedly enjoying myself immensely.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:33.52,0:02:36.63,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,They looked startlingly\Nnew and mysterious.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:38.01,0:02:41.13,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,He named his new\Ncreation the radiograph.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:41.40,0:02:45.80,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,He wrote triumphantly to a patron,\NI have finally freed myself from the sticky medium
Dialogue: 0,0:02:45.80,0:02:49.10,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,of paint and am\Nworking directly with light itself.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:50.41,0:02:54.75,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,For all their simplicity, the\Nradiographs powerfully evoked space and movement.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:54.79,0:02:57.93,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,He orchestrated\Ncomplex compositions,
Dialogue: 0,0:02:57.93,0:03:01.46,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,often making multiple\Nexposures for a single picture,
Dialogue: 0,0:03:01.46,0:03:04.51,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and coaxed mysterious\Nshadows out of ordinary objects.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:04.74,0:03:07.86,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Over the next decade,\Nhe made hundreds of photos
Dialogue: 0,0:03:07.86,0:03:11.02,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,in this manor and conducted\Nother experiments in the darkroom.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:11.16,0:03:15.50,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I deliberately dodged all the rules,\Nmixed the most insane products together,
Dialogue: 0,0:03:16.28,0:03:19.74,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,committed heinous crimes\Nagainst chemistry and photography.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:21.48,0:03:25.10,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Man Ray once said he\Nset out to violate every rule in photography.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:25.56,0:03:30.19,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Throughout the twenties and thirties\Nhe continually pushed the frontiers of the photographic medium,
Dialogue: 0,0:03:30.19,0:03:33.44,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,achieving works of rare\Nbeauty and strangeness.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:33.88,0:03:37.66,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,He applied his talents to\Nportraiture, fashion, and advertising.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:38.44,0:03:41.58,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Along the way, he opened\Nnew avenues for creative photography
Dialogue: 0,0:03:41.95,0:03:46.22,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and produced some of the most\Nmemorable and iconic pictures of his time.