Man Ray

 Man Ray was a photographer who focused heavily on Dada and Surrealism. This is apparent in his style of posing and use of models, as well as obscurity in his works in general. A good amount of his work uses human figures (usually women) who pose for the camera like it's a normal image that'd be in a photo magazine. He also has images that are just plain obscure, and rather tough to figure out what exactly I'm looking at.

The first image I choose to look at seems awfully strange. There are no people like I spoke of earlier, and there's just shapes and patterns. It looks like a negative or a photogram of some sort to me though, and upon further inspection, it looks like the subject may be a slinky, and shown around it looks like the reflection of clouds and a hooded individual looking upon it. Was this image double exposed? I'm unsure. But it is surreal to the point where it has an indistinguishable subject matter, which allows the mind to fill in the gaps.

This second image is very much so different. It has a clear subject matter that can be made out. It's a nude individual laying on a couch, looking at a painting of a pair of lips in the sky above a landscape. The painting on it's own is very surrealistic looking, but the addition of the nude model seems to just work, as if it was calculated, yet it's such an odd and random addition at the same time.