Surrealism began from the 1920's to the 1930's, during this time we were at a high point of Modernism.
- It is a movement based in Paris.
- Andre Breton published Surrealist Manifesto' in 1924.
- It is the interest in Irrational and the concern of the truth above Realism.
- Surrealism is influenced by Freud's theory of the 'unconscious'.
- The interpretation of dreams(1899).
Sigmund Freud (1856 - 1939)
-Conscious Mind - Everyday thoughts, decisions, feelings observations, needed for the human to function.
-Unconscious Mind - Places where you store 'unacceptable thoughts', wishes, desires, traumatic memories, represses, painful emotions.
- Uncovering these thoughts through psychoanalysis, freeing patients from the symptoms. Hypnosis, meditation, analysis of dreams. Random word association - Language Freudian slip.
Key Features of Surrealism Photography.
Themes/Subjects. Visual Language.
- The female nude representing sex. - Photo-montage.
- The unconscious. - Strange juxtapositions of the everyday.
- The body vs the mind. - Symbolic use of objects.
- Ordinary/ extraordinary. - Black + white.
- Solarisation/ Brulage.
Brassai (1899 - 1984)
- Involuntary sculpture 1933.
- Paris at night Photography.
-Unconsciously looking at normal objects turned into what appears like something else. Record of persons actions.
- 'Paris by night' - Brassai collection of images from 1933. This book is the celebration of the edges of Photography.
- The ordinary next to the extraordinary - Brassai hangs out in late night bars, people - gels moments of extraordinary next to ordinary.
Other Surrealist Photographers:
-Man Ray - Paul Ubac
- Lee Miller - Henri Cartier Bresson
- Andre Kertesz - Hans Beller
- Claude Canum - Maurice Tabard
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