Surrealist Photography

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Surrealist photography began in the 1920s and quickly developed as an interesting means of photography in the following decades. Several surrealist photographers were inspired by the theories of Freud because of the impact he had made regarding the working of the human mind and the distorted images that it held within the unconscious. This paper provides a definition of surrealist photography. It then discusses several photographers and their works, including Rosalind Krauss and her Marxist views, Lucy Schwob, who created the "Claude Cahun Self Portrait", Dora Maar, and Andre Kertesz, who produced "Distortion - Paris 1933".

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"In addition to Lucy Schwob, there have been other impressive surrealist photographers. Dora Maar is another name that stands out because of her brilliant work on the Portrait of Pere Ubu, 1936. In addition to Dora's work there is the impressive work of Georges Hugnet Untitled Collage, 1934. This photomontage comprises of several photographs merged in such a way that it produces one print. There is an ideal method adopted for this, and the result is an image that unites unrelated elements with a dream-like quality. Similar to this is Man Ray's Rayograph, which is an image that is created without a camera, and therefore exposes the "enigma of objects"."

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