2012年2月3日星期五

Surrealism in Photography



Man Ray---Return to Reason 1923

Surrealism was a movement in the art and intellectual activities, which is emerged after World War I. Andre Breton was the founder of the surrealistic concepts. Surrealism in photography has really important impact on the development of photography. Differ from the conventional forms; surrealist arts don’t have a specific shape or idea. It can be the expression of basic human instinct and the unconscious mind. Man Ray and Lee Miller are the two successful surrealism photographer who have overcome the limitations of photography to create surrealistic images. Maurice Tabard is another famous one by applying his own technique for surrealistic imaging. Surrealist photographs are described as the images, which symbolically represent dreams, nightmares, sexual ecstasy and madness. Photography is really a difficult media for showing surrealism ideas. It records the reality, but the real images cannot be sufficient to illustrate such unconventional patterns. However, most famous surrealist photographers have fulfilled the task since they can use the photographic techniques effectively. The influences of Surrealism within photography have been far reaching. In later time, part of the photographers were interested in how the camera can simultaneously record everyday reality and probe beneath its surface to reveal new possibilities of meaning.

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