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Appropriated Photographs in French Surrealist Periodicals, 1924-1939 (Hardcover)
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Appropriated Photographs in French Surrealist Periodicals, 1924-1939 (Hardcover)
Series: Studies in Surrealism
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The first monograph to analyze the Surrealist gesture of
photographic appropriation, this study examines "found" photographs
in three French Surrealist reviews published in the 1920s and
1930s: La Revolution surrealiste, edited by Andre Breton;
Documents, edited by Georges Bataille; and Minotaure, edited by
Breton and others. The book asks general questions about the
production and deployment of meaning through photographs, but
addresses more specifically the construction of a Surrealist
practice of photography through the gesture of borrowing and
re-contextualization and reveals something crucial both about
Surrealist strategies and about the way photographs operate. The
book is structured around four case studies, including scientific
photographs of an hysteric in Charcot's clinic at the Salpetriere
hospital, positioned as poetry rather than pathology; and one of
the first crime-scene photographs, depicting Jack the Ripper's last
victim, radically transformed into a work of art. Linda Steer
traces the trajectory of the found photographs, from their first
location to their location in a Surrealist periodical. Her study
shows that the act of removal and re-framing highlights the
instability and mutability of photographic meaning an instability
and mutability that has consequences for our understanding both of
photography and of Surrealism in the 1920s and 1930s.
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