Man Ray Portraits at National Portrait Gallery

Devoted to one of the most innovative and influential artists of his generation, this major photographic exhibition includes over 150 vintage prints from Man Ray’s career taken between 1916 and 1968. Portraits of Man Ray’s celebrated contemporaries are shown alongside his personal and often intimate portraits of friends, lovers and his social circle. His versatility and experimentation as an artist is illustrated throughout all of his photography, although this was actually never his chosen principal artistic medium. The exhibition brings together photographic portraits of cultural figures and friends including the likes of Marcel Duchamp, Pablo Picasso, James Joyce, Henri Matisse, Salvador Dali, Virginia Woolf and Coco Chanel.