Definitions of Surrealism and Surreal Photography
- A movement in art and literature that flourished in the early twentieth century. Surrealism aimed at expressing imaginative dreams and visions free from conscious rational control. Salvador Dali was an influential surrealist painter; Jean Cocteau was a master of surrealist film.
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"Surreal photography would be more about creating a world or image which goes beyond the physical world as we know it. It usually shows something which would be impossible in real life or tampers with the line defining what is real and what is imaginary. Surreal = beyond the real."
Photos from the internet that I like and inspire me
Lots of these photographs play around with scale and viewpoint to make objects out of proportion and they look surreal and abstract.