Examines how photography and the camera affected surrealistic art in the 20th century.
This paper emphasizes the history of the Dada movement and its effects on Surrealism, with an emphasis on photography. The paper explores artists such as Max Ernst, Miller, Man Ray, and Salvador Dali and looks at ways in which they used photography in their artwork. The paper also examines the different techniques of photography and its effect on 21st century art.
“In the years after World War I, both Dadaists and Surrealists made wide use of photographs as a source of visual ideas and as a physical component in collages. But even then photo-collages were not new, other artist had used them in the 19th century. However, the first photo-collages which were clearly used for serious artistic purposes were assembled by members of the various Dada groups that were formed in Switzerland and Germany during World War I.”