Man Ray-Photogram/Rayograph

This photogram was created by the surrealist artist Man Ray. Man Ray created a lot of these pieces throughout his career as well as paintings. He called his photograms 'Rayographs' because his photograms had a surreal value to them in the sense that a lot of the objects he used to create his pieces were either barely unidentifiable or could be thought of as another object.

I find the photogram i have chosen really interesting. This is because i find the white sticks in the piece are debatable into what they actually are. They remind me of candy sticks which was one of my favourite sweets when i was growing up; i used to pretend they were cigarettes. On the same theme, i could also say that they resemble a stick of filters for roll up cigarettes. There is also a smoking pipe in the background which ties in with my theme of smoking; i can only keep thinking that Man Ray was trying to do a statement about smoking but this theory can be proved wrong when looking at the rest of the objects. There are other objects in this piece which i really cannot think of what they are. The only thing i can guess is that one of the objects (left hand in the center) looks like a mini old fashioned microphone.

source of photo: http://aqua-velvet.com/2010/06/man-ray-photograms/