City Gorged With Dreams
Subtitle: Surrealism and  Documentary Photography in Interwar Paris
Publisher: Manchester University Press
Published: October 4, 2002
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 192
ISBN-13: 9780719062155
Subjects: Photographs: collections; Surrealism & Dada; History - General; Photography; Art; France; Europe - France; Photojournalism; History / France; General
Description: The author analyses how the Surrealists utilised the tactics of documentary and how Surrealist ideas in turn influenced the development of documentary photography. This is a study of what Louis Aragon called 'surrealist realism': the exploration of the real-life surreality of the city.