The Subversive Eye: Surrealist and Experimental Photography from the David Raymond Collection
In 1935, Salvador Dal铆 called his paintings 鈥渃olor photography done by hand,鈥� signaling the immense importance of photography as a Surrealist medium. Debuting in relation to the movement鈥檚 literary production, photography came to define a range of avant-garde practices around the world. In the hands of Surrealists and the experimental photographers they inspired, the camera became a mechanism for discovering visual poetry, and seeing the world in a new way. With a dizzying array of tactics, including multiple exposure, unusual perspectives, cropping, and solarization, Surrealists rapidly made the medium their own and their procedures radiated throughout Western and Eastern Europe, the Americas and Japan.
In celebration of the centennial of the founding of Surrealism in 1924, this exhibition will feature 100+ works created by more than 50 artists, highlighting the movement鈥檚 original aims in the medium of photography and its far-reaching influence. By exploring the capacities of the medium, it will highlight how artists have ultimately used photographic techniques to question the nature of seeing itself, delving deeply into the inner realm.
Notable artists include Eileen Agar, Eug猫ne Atget, Joseph Bartuska, Hans Bellmer, 叠谤补蝉蝉补茂, Manuel Alvarez-Bravo, Robert Capa, Georges Hugnet, Clarence John Laughlin, Dora Maar, Lee Miller, Lucia Moholy, Osamu Shiihara, Man Ray and Wols. Dora Maar will be represented by no less than eighteen rare vintage prints. Importantly, the exhibition will explore the numerous ties between Surrealist ideas and Eastern European, German and Japanese experimental practices. The exhibition presents Surrealists, broadly conceived, as multi-faceted, complex and global phenomena that often complement the aesthetics and ambitions of other avant-gardes around the globe.
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In 1935, Salvador Dal铆 called his paintings 鈥渃olor photography done by hand,鈥� signaling the immense importance of photography as a Surrealist medium. Debuting in relation to the movement鈥檚 literary production, photography came to define a range of avant-garde practices around the world. In the hands of Surrealists and the experimental photographers they inspired, the camera became a mechanism for discovering visual poetry, and seeing the world in a new way. With a dizzying array of tactics, including multiple exposure, unusual perspectives, cropping, and solarization, Surrealists rapidly made the medium their own and their procedures radiated throughout Western and Eastern Europe, the Americas and Japan.
In celebration of the centennial of the founding of Surrealism in 1924, this exhibition will feature 100+ works created by more than 50 artists, highlighting the movement鈥檚 original aims in the medium of photography and its far-reaching influence. By exploring the capacities of the medium, it will highlight how artists have ultimately used photographic techniques to question the nature of seeing itself, delving deeply into the inner realm.
Notable artists include Eileen Agar, Eug猫ne Atget, Joseph Bartuska, Hans Bellmer, 叠谤补蝉蝉补茂, Manuel Alvarez-Bravo, Robert Capa, Georges Hugnet, Clarence John Laughlin, Dora Maar, Lee Miller, Lucia Moholy, Osamu Shiihara, Man Ray and Wols. Dora Maar will be represented by no less than eighteen rare vintage prints. Importantly, the exhibition will explore the numerous ties between Surrealist ideas and Eastern European, German and Japanese experimental practices. The exhibition presents Surrealists, broadly conceived, as multi-faceted, complex and global phenomena that often complement the aesthetics and ambitions of other avant-gardes around the globe.
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