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Lecture Six - Controversies

DR. TERRY SPEAKE

The Re-Presentation of Images - Any collection of photographs is an exercise in surrealist montage and the surrealist abbreviation of history.

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Anton Giulio Bragaglia:

  • Pioneer of Italian Futuristic Photography

  • Produced futuristic manifestos

  • Futurists had a passionate loathing of anything old - they admired speed, technology - anything that showed the triumph of technology (humanity) over nature

Brasilia (1890 - 1960)

The Dada Movement:

  • Anti-war, anti-culture

  • A reaction to the First World War, began in 1916

  • Object was to react against the meaninglessness of the modern world

  • Inspired surrealism, pop art and punk rock

Sex Pistols (1977)

Man Ray:

  • American by birth, spent most of his career in Paris

  • Friend of Marcel Duchamp - both discovered photography as a creative medium 

  • Discovered the 'rayograph' (photogram)

  • Argued that they were the first photographic prints to attain artistic value

  • Man Ray made the shift from Dada to Surrealism and understood the creative power of photography

Man Ray (1930) Tears

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