The date was August 27, 1890 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. On this day two Russian-Jewish immigrants, Melach and her husband had a child. His name was Emmanuel Radnitsky. He was teased in his youth about his name and later on became Man Ray. The family eventually moved to Brooklyn. As a child he enjoyed sketching, inventing, repairing, and building. He went to various schools in New York after refusing a scholarship to study architecture. Ray became a commercial artist and draftsman and had his first exhibit at 25. He spent some time in New Jersey working as an advertising draftsman. The artists who inspired him were Alfred Stieglitz and Robert Henri. In 1913, he was exposed to Cubis
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