This exhibition brings together nearly 400 works, giving us a rare overview of surrealist photography.
A broad selection of the finest proofs by
Man Ray,
Hans Bellmer,
Claude Cahun,
Raoul Ubac, Jacques-Andr茅
Boiffard,
Maurice Tabard will be shown alongside rarely seen images which reveal a number of surrealist ways of using photography, such as publications in magazines or artists' books, advertisements, collections of images, fascination for the raw print, pictures taken in photo booths and group photographs etc.
The event introduces the public to unknown series of collages by such renowned artists as
Paul Eluard,
Andr茅 Breton,
Antonin Artaud and Georges Hugnet, the photographic games of L茅o Malet and
Victor Brauner and highlights personalities like Art眉r Harfaux and Benjamin Fondane.