So Exotic, So Homemade
Subtitle: Surrealism, Englishness and Documentary Photography (The Critical Image)
Publisher: Manchester University Press
Published: November 27, 2007
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 288
ISBN-13: 9780719073403
Subjects: Films, cinema; Photographic reportage; Art; Art & Art Instruction; Criticism; European; History - Surrealism & Dadaism; Art / History / Modern (late 19th Century to 1945); History - Modern (Late 19th Century to 1945)
Description: One of the key themes in this book is the relationship between the 'homely' and the 'exotic', in the innovative mix of poetry and ethnography in Mass-Observation for example, or the shadowed England constructed in the world of Bill Brandt.