Man Ray was born on August 27, 1890 was and American visual artist who spent most of his career in France. 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.
Irving Penn
Irving Penn was an American photographer during the 19th century and was best known for his fashion, portraits and still life. He did some still life pictures of glass which were quite creative because he mainly focused of the shadows that glass objects create. In some of his photo shoots he had mixed portrait/fashion photography with the glass photography.
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