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Episode 4
26minutes.

The Photo - Surrealist Photography

Synopsis

This documentary offers us, on an original and amusing way, the " trade secret " of the surrealist photography.
Their names are Man Ray, Dora Maar, Alvarez Bravo, Brassai, André Kertesz or Henri Cartier-Bresson. They're counting amongst the greatest photographers of the 20th century. During the 1930's, their images embodied the most intense and lively side of surrealism. The images are questionned trough animation techniques. They're dismantled, put back together again, brought back into play. Those images are " brought to life ", showing us the choices, the serendipity and their inner strength. Each photography shown in the film becomes a story on its own, a little photographic drama who's only ending while reaching the finale picture. The audience gets inside the process, the work on light and frame, the superimposing, solarisation, photomontage and slowly becomes itself part of this intricate game between photography, imagination and reality.

Available Versions

Audio

French, German, English, Italian

Subtitle

French, German, English, Italian

Transcription

French
German
English
Italian

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Photo - Staged Photography

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The Photo - Primitives Of Photography 1850-1960

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The Photo - New German Objectivity

Thumbnail for Photo - Photographing Intimacy
26min

Photo - Photographing Intimacy

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26min

The Photo - Inventors

Thumbnail for Photo - Pictorialism
26min

Photo - Pictorialism

Thumbnail for Photo - Found Images
26min

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Thumbnail for Photo - Conceptual Photography
26min

Photo - Conceptual Photography

Educational support

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Thematics

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