Man Ray — artist (surrealism) with roots in the Russian Empire
Man Ray (born Emmanuel Radnitzky) was an American visual artist and a central figure of Dada and Surrealism in Paris. He made cameraless photograms he called rayographs, and with Lee Miller rediscovered solarisation; he photographed Duchamp, Joyce, Stein and much of the Parisian avant-garde.
Tracing the roots — Russian Empire (towns not documented)
Born in South Philadelphia in 1890 to Melach "Max" Radnitzky, a tailor, and Manya "Minnie" Radnitzky (née Lourie or Luria), Russian-Jewish immigrants; the family later lived in Williamsburg, Brooklyn. The towns the parents came from are not named in the sources.
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Russian Empire (towns not documented). At the time, this region lay within the Russian Empire, which spanned from Poland to the Pacific.
A career defined by ambition
"I photograph what I do not wish to paint and I paint what I cannot photograph."