Kansuke Yamamoto (1914 -1987) was a photographer and poet. He was a prominent Japanese surrealist born in Nagoya, Japan. He encountered surrealism and dadaism through the poetry magazine “cine´” published by Yamanaka Chiruu who was promoting surrealism in Japan. At the age of 15, he started to write poems. He graduated from the Nagoya Second Commercial School in 1929. That year, he started writing poetry. He … Continue reading Kansuke Yamamoto
Andor (“André”) Kertész (1894 – 1985) was a photographer from Hungarian descent, in 1944 he became an American. Kertész father wanted him to develop a career in banking, he went to a business school in Budapest. in 1912 he got his first camera, during WWI he made many photos from the battle at the front. In 1916 he won his first price with a selfportrait, … Continue reading André Kertész
So I have always been fascinated about the Doll series from photographer Hans Bellmer (1902-1975). He was a German artist, best known for the life-sized pubescent female dolls he produced in the mid-1930s. Historians of art and photography also consider him a Surrealist photographer.Bellmer is most famous for the creation of a series of dolls as well as photographs of them. He was influenced in … Continue reading Hans Bellmer
Olga Spolarics was one of those pioneers in double exposures, she created many surreal artworks using her own photographs (and some of her husband Adjoran Wlassics) Continue reading Surreal Visions by Olga
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