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City Gorged With Dreams

by Ian Walker

SurrealismArt and photographyPhotography, artisticDocumentary photographyFrance, civilizationHistoryArtistic Photography

The author analyses how the Surrealists utilised the tactics of documentary and how Surrealist ideas in turn influenced the development of documentary photography. This is a study of what Louis Aragon called 'surrealist realism': the exploration of the real-life surreality of the city.

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Book data: Open Library