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IRA NOWINSKI : MAN RAY STUDIO DETAILS: Ira Nowinski DESCRIPTION: Man Ray's widow Juliette died in 1991, and her brothers formed a trust to foster worldwide recognition of this important artist. Following a disastrous flood in the studio in 1992, the artworks and many of the personal effects that it had contained were put in storage, eventually to be sold off to pay taxes. Before any of these events took place, however, Ira Nowinski photographed the studio inside and out, preserving the Paris studio on film exactly as it had been during Man Ray's final days. The beautifully composed, richly printed black-and-white photographs allow, in Gass's words, ́memories to regain their rights. Layer after layer, print upon print, level above level, art echoing art: I think Man Ray would have loved the idea. Ira Nowinski has been a fixture on San Francisco's artistic and cultural scene for over three decades. He earned a Master of Fine Arts degree from the San Francisco Art Institute in 1973. Published and exhibited work includes: "No Vacancy: Urban Renewal and the Elderly", "Cafe Society: Beat Poets in San Francisco", "Backstage at the Opera, an examination of the San Francisco Opera", "A Season at Glyndebourne, The Glyndebourne Festival Opera, England", and In "Fitting Memory: The Art and Politics of Holocaust Memorials". His work is included in public collections such as the Green Library at Stanford University; the Bancroft Library at UC Berkeley; the Library of Congress; Bibliotheque Nationale, Paris; The Museum of Modern Art, New York; San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, and the National Museum of Photography in Bradford, England. |
