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  • Chapter 11 - Photography in Surrealism

  • from Part II - Developments: Practices/Cultures/Material Forms
  • Edited by Natalya Lusty, University of Melbourne
  • Book:
    Surrealism
    Published online:
    23 July 2021
    Print publication:
    12 August 2021, pp 208-223

  • Summary

    Photography played an increasingly significant role in surrealism in the 1920s and especially the 1930s, when the art form was becoming ever more popular across printed picture magazines and mass-media newspapers. During this time, the surrealists developed their own avant-garde uses of photography, turning it into both a surrealist art practice in its own right and as a means to represent the surrealist group and their interests. The chapter argues that the surrealists employed a diversity of photographic techniques and genres, and developed these in new ways, as demonstrated across their various activities in public forums, surrealist magazines, exhibitions and books. Since photography was situated clearly within the aims of the surrealist project, surrealist photography becomes both a reflection on and a means of constructing the images of their vision, desire, dreams and social ambitions, which were all too often at variance with the predominant social uses of photography.