Research

Historical
 Man Ray

He is best known for his darkroom photography, his work has been featured in many museums across the world. He is also noted for his photograms which he called “Rayograms” in reference to himself. One of his most famous and successful pieces of work are the “glass tears” which appears in the first plate in a 1934 book of his photographs. 
The emotive expression of the woman's plaintive upward glance and mascara-encrusted lashes look like they are intended to invoke wonder at the cause of her distress. The face, however, is not of a real woman but of a fashion mannequin who cries tears of glistening, round glass beads; the effect is to aestheticize the sentiment her tears would normally express. Man Ray made this photograph in Paris around the time of his breakup with his lover Lee Miller, and the woman's false tears may relate to that event in the artist's life.


Contemporary

Abelardo Morell

He is a Boston based photographer represented by Edwynn Houk Gallery in New York City. He was born in 1948 in Havana, Cuba. Him and his family fled from Cubs in 1962 to move to New York City. In his work, he has done a lot of photography relating to glass such as the many different wine glass photos he's done. I think they are interesting because the glasses are filled with liquids and the objects around them look distorted. 

Reflections

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