Thursday, 19 September 2013

Manipulation, Staged and Documentary.

The difference between theme and technique. 

"In theory, making photographs is the pictorial equivalent to the surrealist process of automatism. Although, surrealist photography has not always attached itself to such a straight forward and automatic approach. It is thought that, generally, surrealist photography took several forms: photomontage and manipulation, staged photography and documentary photography." (Excerpt from my previous written essay, Photography and Surrealism).

Photomontage and manipulation:
Jerry Uelsmann
Richard Hamilton

Staged photography:
Nobuyoshi Araki
Rune Guneriussen

Documentary photography:
Andre Kertesz

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