Category: surrealism
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window shopping #4 (Paris)
Surrealism has always courted accidents, welcomed the uninvited, flattered disorderly presences. What could be more surreal than an object which virtually produces itself, and with a minimum of effort? An object whose beauty, fantastic disclosures, emotional weight are likely to be further enhanced by any new accidents that might befall it? It is photography that…
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window shopping #2 (Italy)
The mainstream of photographic activity has shown that a Surrealist manipulation or theatricalization of the real is unnecessary, if not actually redundant. Surrealism lies at the heart of the photographic enterprise: in the very creation of a duplicate world, of a reality in the second degree, narrower but more dramatic than the one perceived by…
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diverted traffic
I photograph to record objective and subjective situations that I consider to be fundamental. [The] inner model is not an autonomous product of our subconscious, but it is the projection of the movement of objective reality within us … which is not a rigid and dead set of facts surrounding our unsteady subjects, but reality…
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window shopping #1 (Amsterdam)
I am far from the first to photograph shop windows. The camera captures what our brains, navigating the urban landscape, habitually filter out: the melding of the displays behind the glass with reflections from the street that produces beguiling and sometimes disturbingly surreal landscapes. Eugène Atget’s “Boulevard de Strasbourg: Corsets” (1912) and “Magasin, avenue des…
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Je t’aime, moi non plus
the graves of Charles Baudelaire, Jean-Paul Sartre and Simone de Beauvoir, Man Ray and his wife Juliette, Serge Gainsbourg (with the Camels, Metro tickets + lipstick kisses), and Samuel Beckett. Montparnasse Cemetery, Paris, summer 2002
Camera lucida 