Ghosts of the Black Chamber: Experimental, Dada and Surre...
Black, Candice
Photography is most often thought of as a way to document reality--to capture true-life experiences as they occur. But for the artists of the Dadaist and Surrealist movements, who placed the very question of reality and its perception at the center of their works, the camera's lens functioned as a creative extension of the imagination--a third eye attuned to unconscious meaning--and the photograph was an index of signs that could be modified, ...
