Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2004/05/12
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]There were...are...surrealist painters, writers of prose and poetry, dancers, movie makers, photographers, and adherants from perhaps all of the arts. Surrealism does not mean "un-real," but refers to a state of reality beyond...above...what is normally perceived. Andre Breton explains it a lot better than I can in the "Surrealist Manifesto" of 1924. Cartier-Bresson was an early practitioner of the manifesto's principles.
Buzz Hausner
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> From: Mark Rabiner <mark@rabinergroup.com>
> Date: 2004/05/12 Wed PM 02:52:14 EDT
> To: Leica Users Group <lug@leica-users.org>
> Subject: Re: [Leica] Best known photo ?
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> Well his stuff does not look too much to me like Salvador Dali (no melting
> clocks) but as I look into it I see my ignorance. There was a big surrealist
> "movement" in photography I imagine they used the term differently then the
> painters did.
> Man Ray and Lee Miller I saw are grouped in that school among others.
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> Mark Rabiner
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