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 natural vision” - Susan Sontag
La Jetée (1963)
Chris Marker
“The photographs shock, in the flow of the
movie transmuting, in an instant, present into
past, life into death... Marker's La Jetée (1963),
is the tale of a man who foresees his own death,
narrated entirely with still photographs” - Sontag
Sewing machine with an umbrella I
Surrealism in Photography (Dali)
“It is photography that has best shown how
to juxtapose the sewing machine and the
umbrella, whose fortuitous encounter was
hailed by a great Surrealist poet as an
epitome of the beautiful” - Sontag
August Sander
Surrealism as observation
“Sander was not looking for secrets;
he was observing the typical. Society
contains no mystery” - Sontag