Special features of this DVD: interactive menus ; scene access ; essay by biographer, Neil Baldwin: Man Ray and the women he loved ; weblinks.

Film based on the book, Man Ray, American artist by Neil Baldwin.

Originally released as a segment from the PBS television program, American masters originally produced in 1997.

Photographers, Phillip Hurn ... [et al.] ; edited by Bryan McKenzie ; music supervision, John Adams, Rosie Fishell.

Stockard Channing, narrator.

Man Ray is the quintessential modernist figure: photographer, painter, object maker and collagist, filmmaker and printmaker, poet, essayist and philosopher. Born Emanuel Radnitsky in 1890, he went on to become the leader of the "American avant-garde" and the most enigmatic of the Dada-Surrealists who transformed the Paris art world during the ferment of the 1920s and beyond. This profile follows the creative genius from his youth in Brooklyn to his glory days in Paris and finally to his impact on future generations of artists in a variety of fields.

Not rated.

DVD.