It
has been said that it is within the mind where photographic images are created
not the camera. In this blog post I use
photography to take you the viewer to a different visual place.
Surrealism
started as a cultural movement in 1917 and by 1924 it became seen in the
photography of Man Ray through the use of double exposure, montage and
solarization. Surrealism in photography
deals with distorted reality. There is a
certain visual confusion, however, a narrative develops through examination of
the components of the image and not all viewers may experience the same
narrative.
So
are these distorted perceptions of reality or a wider matrix of our social
being turned into a visual blur of our private thoughts? In this post I experiment with the combining
of various images to create dream like photographs. While this particular style of photography
may not be something everyone wants to pursue, it can be an interesting
departure from whatever you choose as the norm.
These images are my “Midnight
Dreams” and a trip into the photographic world of surrealistic photography.
I think if you are an artist you
are not so much interested in the reality of what you are looking at, but more
about interpreting the reality that the subject projects. All
the images were shot using a Sony A7II camera, some of the distorted
perceptions of reality created in Photoshop and others in camera. I can be reached for comments at
nymacc@gmail.com
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