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Surrealist Photography
Centre Pompidou
Place Georges Pompidou, 75004 Paris, France
September 23, 2009 - January 11, 2010

 

 

 

Centre Pompidou presents La Subversion des images Surrealism, photography, film.  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-André 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, André Breton, Antonin Artaud and Georges Hugnet, the photographic games of Léo Malet and Victor Brauner and highlights personalities like Artür Harfaux and Benjamin Fondane.

(Image: Man Ray, Lee Miller's Neck? Paris, 1929; Courtesy of Man Ray Estate)



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