Surrealist photography

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I'm a student of Fine Arts, and I express myself with photography (manipulated photography more exactly). In my childhood I was struck by the publicity photographs that used surrealism as a form of communication. Similarly, I intend to express ideas that grow in my mind through a closely related technique of collage, although I use digital media to perfect pictures.

full of suspense, ben zank's work talks about gravity, entanglement, stillness, and that precise moment, the one before the fall.

Impossible Photography by Martín De Pasquale, via Behance

This haunting show, in the cool gallery spaces high above the city that Dora Maar knew so well, makes it clear that she was indeed a star, a leading figure in Surrealist photo-montage of the mid-1930s. Maar’s largest exhibition in France, it contains over 400 of her works, yet, like the model in the banner, she turns away, and hides her face, remaining enigmatic in her work. In Self-Portrait with Fan (1930), she shows only her reflection in a mirror, her serious gaze shrouded by the circles…

Which one creeps you out the most?

A photograph by Kansuke Yamamoto, 1950. Future photographer Kansuke Yamamoto’s father, Goro Yamamoto, was a talented photographer himself. The elder Yamamoto had an affinity for “Pictorialism,” or the artistic practice of distorting or manipulating a photograph in perhaps a painterly manner. Yamamoto didn’t initially follow in his father’s footsteps when it came to photography, and preferred to spend his young years writing poetry. At the age of seventeen Kansuke relocated from his…

“Human Space” is an expressive series of images captured by Slovakian photographer Mária Švarbová. More photography inspiration Visit her website

Marcel Marien. The Spirit of the Staircase, 1949 | Cleveland Museum of Art

I 1948, Argentinian women's magazine Idilio commissioned German-born Grete Stern to illustrate women's dreams.