Surrealist Color Photography
SURREALIST STYLE
In the wake of World War I’s ravaging of Europe, artists delved into the unconscious mind to confront and grapple with this reality. Poet and critic André Breton, a leader of the Surrealist movement who authored the 1924 Surrealist Manifesto, called this approach “a violent reaction against the impoverishment and sterility of thought processes that resulted from centuries of rationalism.” Surrealist art emerged in the 1920s with dreamlike and uncanny imagery guided by a variety of techniques such as automatic drawing, which can be likened to a stream of consciousness, to channel psychological experiences.
Although Surrealism was a groundbreaking approach for European art, its practitioners were inspired by Indigenous art and ancient mysticism for reenvisioning how sculptures, paintings, prints, performance art and more could respond to the unsettled world around them.
Surrealist artists were also informed by the Dada movement, which originated in 1916 Zurich and embraced absurdity over the logic that had propelled modernity into violence. Some of the Surrealists had witnessed this firsthand, such as Max Ernst, who served in the trenches during World War I, and Salvador Dalí, whose otherworldly paintings and other work responded to the dawning civil war in Spain.
Other key artists associated with the revolutionary art and literary movement included Man Ray, Joan Miró, René Magritte, Yves Tanguy, Frida Kahlo and Meret Oppenheim, all of whom had a distinct perspective on reimagining reality and freeing the unconscious mind from the conventions and restrictions of rational thought. Pablo Picasso showed some of his works in “La Peinture Surréaliste” — the first collective exhibition of Surrealist painting — which opened at Paris’s Galerie Pierre in November of 1925. (Although Magritte is best known as one of the visual Surrealist movement’s most talented practitioners, his famous 1943 painting, The Fifth Season, can be interpreted as a formal break from Surrealism.)
The outbreak of World War II led many in the movement to flee Europe for the Americas, further spreading Surrealism abroad. Generations of modern and contemporary artists were subsequently influenced by the richly symbolic and unearthly imagery of Surrealism, from Joseph Cornell to Arshile Gorky.
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Style: Surrealist
Transport of Delight
Located in Sante Fe, NM
Maggie Taylor's digital creations are emblematic, afterimages that invite, transport, and are unforgettable. Taylor's images are built, layer by layer and object by object, through a...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Surrealist Color Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
The Writer
Located in Sante Fe, NM
Maggie Taylor's digital creations are emblematic, afterimages that invite, transport, and are unforgettable. Taylor's images are built, layer by layer and object by object, through a...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Surrealist Color Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Tea For Two, limited edition photograph, archival pigment, signed and numbered
By Tom Chambers
Located in Sante Fe, NM
Tea For Two, limited edition photograph, archival pigment, signed and numbered
My photographic series Tales of Heroines is a collection of stories about the lives of young women tol...
Category
2010s Surrealist Color Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
The Writer
Located in Sante Fe, NM
Maggie Taylor's digital creations are emblematic, afterimages that invite, transport, and are unforgettable. Taylor's images are built, layer by layer and object by object, through a...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Surrealist Color Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
The Bird Watchers
Located in Sante Fe, NM
Maggie Taylor's digital creations are emblematic, afterimages that invite, transport and are unforgettable. Taylor's images are built, layer by layer and object by object, through a ...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Surrealist Color Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
The Realist
Located in Sante Fe, NM
Maggie Taylor's digital creations are emblematic, afterimages that invite, transport, and are unforgettable. Taylor's images are built, layer by layer and object by object, through a...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Surrealist Color Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
The Occasion
Located in Sante Fe, NM
Maggie Taylor's digital creations are emblematic, afterimages that invite, transport and are unforgettable. Taylor's images are built, layer by layer and object by object, through a ...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Surrealist Color Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Lucky, Color Photograph, Archival Pigment Ink Print, signed and numbered
Located in Sante Fe, NM
Lucky, 2023 is a recent archival pigment ink print by Maggie Taylor. All prints are signed and numbered by Maggie Taylor.
Maggie Taylor's digital creations are emblematic, afterima...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Surrealist Color Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Formation (Male nude bodies are integral to Autumn foliage))
Located in New Orleans, LA
Formation is from a limited edition of 12. It is signed in pencil on back, Nude males are the falling leaves in this autumnal wonderland.
A new book on the artist will be published in Spring.
London-based Photographer and Graphic designer Omer Ga...
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2010s Surrealist Color Photography
Materials
C Print
Bon Fire Night (Body Terrain)
Located in New Orleans, LA
This is number 1 from a limited edition of 12.
London-based Photographer and Graphic designer Omer Ga'ash, graduated from Bezalel Academy of Art and De...
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2010s Surrealist Color Photography
Materials
C Print
The Surprise
Located in Sante Fe, NM
Maggie Taylor's digital creations are emblematic, afterimages that invite, transport and are unforgettable. Taylor's images are built, layer by layer and object by object, through a ...
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21st Century and Contemporary Surrealist Color Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Sailors Delight
Located in Sante Fe, NM
Maggie Taylor's digital creations are emblematic, afterimages that invite, transport and are unforgettable. Taylor's images are built, layer by layer and object by object, through a ...
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21st Century and Contemporary Surrealist Color Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Suzanne Camp Crosby "Enchanted Forest" 1989 Original Photograph
Located in New York, NY
Suzanne Camp Crosby (American, 1948-2020)
Enchanted Forest, 1989
Cibachrome
Sight: 14 3/4 x 14 3/4 in.
Framed: 23 x 22 x 7/8 in.
Signed and inscribed bottom: 2/25, Suzanne Camp Crosb...
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1980s Surrealist Color Photography
Materials
C Print
The philosopher’s study.
Located in Carmel-by-the-Sea, CA
Maggie Taylor (born 1961 in Cleveland, Ohio) is an artist who works with digital images. She won the Santa Fe Center for Photography's Project Competition in 2004. Her work has been ...
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21st Century and Contemporary Surrealist Color Photography
Materials
Digital Pigment
Miss Friday
Located in Wiscasset, ME
Much of Keith Hamilton's work is a comment on human perception: how our mind tries to recognize patterns and make sense of a complex world. Because context greatly influences how we ...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Surrealist Color Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
The Little Mermaid
Located in New York, NY
Alice Zilberberg is an award-winning Fine-Art Photographer. She was born in Tallinn, Estonia, raised in Israel, and is now based in Toronto, Canada. Since graduating from Ryerson Uni...
Category
2010s Surrealist Color Photography
Materials
C Print
Lucky, Color Photograph, Archival Pigment Ink Print, signed and numbered
Located in Sante Fe, NM
Lucky, 2023 is a recent archival pigment ink print by Maggie Taylor. All prints are signed and numbered by Maggie Taylor.
Maggie Taylor's digital creations are emblematic, afterima...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Surrealist Color Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
The Realist
Located in Sante Fe, NM
Maggie Taylor's digital creations are emblematic, afterimages that invite, transport, and are unforgettable. Taylor's images are built, layer by layer and object by object, through a...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Surrealist Color Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Marsh Flight, Steady My Steed, limited edition photograph, archival, signed
By Tom Chambers
Located in Sante Fe, NM
Marsh Flight, Steady My Steed, limited edition photograph, archival, signed and numbered
I present unspoken stories that illustrate fleeting moments in time and which are intended t...
Category
2010s Surrealist Color Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
White Pelicans at Dawn
By Cheryl Medow
Located in Denton, TX
Edition of 10
Signed and numbered in pencil, and blind stamp on print margin.
Signed, titled, dated, and print type in pencil on print verso.
Paper size: 21 x 24 in., Image size: 16 ...
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2010s Surrealist Color Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Kori Bustard And Zebras - Color Photograph, Woman Artist, Bird, Landscape
By Cheryl Medow
Located in Denton, TX
Edition of 10
Signed and numbered in pencil, and blind stamp on print margin by Cheryl Medow
Signed, titled, dated, and print type in pencil on print verso by Cheryl Medow
Paper size...
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2010s Surrealist Color Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Wherever You Look You See The Chrysler Building: Williamsburg
Located in Miami, FL
In 1974, wherever you looked, you could see the Chrysler Building. In this image, from Williamsburg, the distinctive Art Deco spire of the Chrysler Building peeks its head out above ...
Category
1970s Surrealist Color Photography
Materials
Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Archival Pigment
Wonder Room, limited edition color print, signed and numbered
Located in Sante Fe, NM
Wonder Room, limited edition color print, signed and numbered
Maggie Taylor's digital creations are emblematic, afterimages that invite, transport, and are unforgettable. Taylor's ...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Surrealist Color Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Our House, limited edition color print, signed and numbered
Located in Sante Fe, NM
Our House, limited edition color print, signed and numbered
Maggie Taylor's digital creations are emblematic, afterimages that invite, transport, and are unforgettable. Taylor's im...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Surrealist Color Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Billionaires Row from Central Park Reservoir with Magical Light
Located in Miami, FL
Photographer Mitchell Funk revisits many popular tourist locations and shoots them in a way that perhaps millions of tourists never imagined. In "Billionaires Row from Central Park Reservoir...
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2010s Surrealist Color Photography
Materials
Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Archival Pigment
The Next Big Adventure
Located in Sante Fe, NM
Maggie Taylor's digital creations are emblematic, afterimages that invite, transport and are unforgettable. Taylor's images are built, layer by layer and object by object, through a ...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Surrealist Color Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Burn to Shine, limited edition photograph, archival pigment, signed and numbered
By Tom Chambers
Located in Sante Fe, NM
Burn to Shine, limited edition photograph, archival pigment, signed and numbered
From Tom Chambers' series Animal Visions
All my life I have held a fas...
Category
2010s Surrealist Color Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
The Listening Room
Located in Sante Fe, NM
Maggie Taylor's digital creations are emblematic, afterimages that invite, transport, and are unforgettable. Taylor's images are built, layer by layer and object by object, through a...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Surrealist Color Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Trinity Site, Landscape sand dunes of White Sands National Park, White and Blue
Located in London, GB
Trinity Site, 2019 by George McLeod
Limited Edition, Framed Fine Art Print
"The shifting gypsum sand dunes of White Sands National Park are simultaneously the most alien landscape I...
Category
2010s Surrealist Color Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper, Color, Pigment, Archival Pigment
The Occasion
Located in Sante Fe, NM
Maggie Taylor's digital creations are emblematic, afterimages that invite, transport and are unforgettable. Taylor's images are built, layer by layer and object by object, through a ...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Surrealist Color Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Vanilla
Located in Sante Fe, NM
Maggie Taylor's digital creations are emblematic, afterimages that invite, transport, and are unforgettable. Taylor's images are built, layer by layer and object by object, through a...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Surrealist Color Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
An American in Italy
By Tom Chambers
Located in Sante Fe, NM
I present unspoken stories which illustrate fleeting moments in time and which are intended to evoke a mood in the viewer. These mythical illustrations might address the fragility of...
Category
2010s Surrealist Color Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Path in Central Park. Negative Color
Located in Miami, FL
Mitchell Funk is a pioneer of more the 10 different styles of Color Photography.
This very early experimentation with negative color combined with colored filters yields a romantica...
Category
1970s Surrealist Color Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
Artists & Prostitutes
Located in New York, NY
Limited Edition of 2,500 copies, numbered and signed by David LaChapelle
Edition of 2,500
Hardcover in clamshell box, 13.6 x 19.7 in., 43.43 lb, 698 pages
Category
Early 2000s Surrealist Color Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
Pretty Fly For A Fungi In The Forrest
Located in London, GB
CRISTINA SCHEK
Pretty Fly For A Fungi In The Forrest, 2020
Signed certificate of authenticity included.
Giclée Print on Hahnemühle
Anti-Reflective Museum Glass
60 x 60 cm
23 5/8 x 23...
Category
2010s Surrealist Color Photography
Materials
Digital, Giclée
Transport of Delight
Located in Sante Fe, NM
Maggie Taylor's digital creations are emblematic, afterimages that invite, transport, and are unforgettable. Taylor's images are built, layer by layer and object by object, through a...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Surrealist Color Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Vanilla
Located in Sante Fe, NM
Maggie Taylor's digital creations are emblematic, afterimages that invite, transport, and are unforgettable. Taylor's images are built, layer by layer and object by object, through a...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Surrealist Color Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Steady My Steed, limited edition photograph, archival, signed and numbered
By Tom Chambers
Located in Sante Fe, NM
Steady My Steed, limited edition photograph, archival, signed and numbered
I present unspoken stories that illustrate fleeting moments in time and which are intended to evoke a moo...
Category
2010s Surrealist Color Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Dust bowl Texas Sunset with Dramatic Sky Windmill - Orange and Yellow landscape
Located in Miami, FL
While on assignment in 1980 for a Life Magazine story on drought in Texas, Mitchell Funk encountered this vast landscape near Wichita Falls. A windmill with a wood fence and barn...
Category
1980s Surrealist Color Photography
Materials
Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Archival Pigment
An American in Italy
By Tom Chambers
Located in Sante Fe, NM
I present unspoken stories which illustrate fleeting moments in time and which are intended to evoke a mood in the viewer. These mythical illustrations might address the fragility of...
Category
2010s Surrealist Color Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Like No One is Watching, limited edition color print, signed and numbered
Located in Sante Fe, NM
Like No One is Watching, limited edition color print, signed and numbered
Maggie Taylor's digital creations are emblematic, afterimages that invite, transport, and are unforgettabl...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Surrealist Color Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Welcome to the Water Planet
Located in Sante Fe, NM
Maggie Taylor's digital creations are emblematic, afterimages that invite, transport and are unforgettable. Taylor's images are built, layer by layer and object by object, through a ...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Surrealist Color Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Fragment Attraction, limited edition photograph, archival, signed and numbered
By Tom Chambers
Located in Sante Fe, NM
Fragment Attraction, limited edition photograph, archival, signed and numbered
I present unspoken stories that illustrate fleeting moments in time and which are intended to evoke a...
Category
2010s Surrealist Color Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Invitation to a dream
Located in Sante Fe, NM
Maggie Taylor's digital creations are emblematic, afterimages that invite, transport and are unforgettable. Taylor's images are built, layer by layer and object by object, through a ...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Surrealist Color Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
The Gatekeeper
Located in Sante Fe, NM
Maggie Taylor's digital creations are emblematic, afterimages that invite, transport and are unforgettable. Taylor's images are built, layer by layer and object by object, through a ...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Surrealist Color Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Buffalo Gal
By Tom Chambers
Located in Sante Fe, NM
I present unspoken stories which illustrate fleeting moments in time and which are intended to evoke a mood in the viewer. These mythical illustrations might address the fragility of...
Category
2010s Surrealist Color Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Our House, limited edition color print, signed and numbered
Located in Sante Fe, NM
Our House, limited edition color print, signed and numbered
Maggie Taylor's digital creations are emblematic, afterimages that invite, transport, and are unforgettable. Taylor's im...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Surrealist Color Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Marsh Flight, Steady My Steed, limited edition photograph, archival, signed
By Tom Chambers
Located in Sante Fe, NM
Marsh Flight, Steady My Steed, limited edition photograph, archival, signed and numbered
I present unspoken stories that illustrate fleeting moments in time and which are intended t...
Category
2010s Surrealist Color Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Invitation to a dream
Located in Sante Fe, NM
Maggie Taylor's digital creations are emblematic, afterimages that invite, transport and are unforgettable. Taylor's images are built, layer by layer and object by object, through a ...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Surrealist Color Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Sweet Nectar
By Tom Chambers
Located in Sante Fe, NM
I present unspoken stories which illustrate fleeting moments in time and which are intended to evoke a mood in the viewer. These mythical illustrations might address the fragility of...
Category
2010s Surrealist Color Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
“Working an Angle” Photography 36" x 24" inch Edition of 1/7 by Brian Ziff
By Brian Ziff
Located in Culver City, CA
“Working an Angle” Photography 36" x 24" inch Edition of 1/7 by Brian Ziff
Giclee (Archival Ink) Print on Canson Platine Fibre Rag
Not framed.
American Dreams - "Park Drive" serie...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Surrealist Color Photography
Materials
Rag Paper, Archival Ink, Giclée
Vintage Hand Signed Color Photograph Digital Photo Baby Portrait Jo Ann Callis
Located in Surfside, FL
JoAnn Callis (1940- American, Contemporary)
Baby
Color photograph, hand signed in pencil en verso, dated 2000, and numbered 4/200
Upon magnification, it appears to be some kind of ...
Category
20th Century Surrealist Color Photography
Materials
Color
Badlands
By Tom Chambers
Located in Sante Fe, NM
I present unspoken stories which illustrate fleeting moments in time and which are intended to evoke a mood in the viewer. These mythical illustrations might address the fragility of...
Category
2010s Surrealist Color Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Southern Migration
By Tom Chambers
Located in Sante Fe, NM
I present unspoken stories which illustrate fleeting moments in time and which are intended to evoke a mood in the viewer. These mythical illustrations might address the fragility of...
Category
2010s Surrealist Color Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Tea For Two, limited edition photograph, archival pigment, signed and numbered
By Tom Chambers
Located in Sante Fe, NM
Tea For Two, limited edition photograph, archival pigment, signed and numbered
My photographic series Tales of Heroines is a collection of stories about the lives of young women tol...
Category
2010s Surrealist Color Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Wildfire
By Tom Chambers
Located in Sante Fe, NM
I present unspoken stories which illustrate fleeting moments in time and which are intended to evoke a mood in the viewer. These mythical illustrations might address the fragility of...
Category
2010s Surrealist Color Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Double Heist
By Tom Chambers
Located in Sante Fe, NM
I present unspoken stories which illustrate fleeting moments in time and which are intended to evoke a mood in the viewer. These mythical illustrations might address the fragility of...
Category
2010s Surrealist Color Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Winter Sun
By Tom Chambers
Located in Sante Fe, NM
I present unspoken stories which illustrate fleeting moments in time and which are intended to evoke a mood in the viewer. These mythical illustrations might address the fragility of...
Category
2010s Surrealist Color Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Lunge Line
By Tom Chambers
Located in Sante Fe, NM
I present unspoken stories which illustrate fleeting moments in time and which are intended to evoke a mood in the viewer. These mythical illustrations might address the fragility of...
Category
2010s Surrealist Color Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
The Hostess
Located in Sante Fe, NM
Maggie Taylor's digital creations are emblematic, afterimages that invite, transport, and are unforgettable. Taylor's images are built, layer by layer and object by object, through a...
Category
2010s Surrealist Color Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Raven's Blessing
By Tom Chambers
Located in Sante Fe, NM
I present unspoken stories which illustrate fleeting moments in time and which are intended to evoke a mood in the viewer. These mythical illustrations might address the fragility of...
Category
2010s Surrealist Color Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Wonder Room, limited edition color print, signed and numbered
Located in Sante Fe, NM
Wonder Room, limited edition color print, signed and numbered
Maggie Taylor's digital creations are emblematic, afterimages that invite, transport, and are unforgettable. Taylor's ...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Surrealist Color Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Grey Crowned Cranes - Limited Edition Color Photograph, Woman Artist, Birds
By Cheryl Medow
Located in Denton, TX
Grey Crowned Cranes is a limited edition color photograph featuring two large birds perched on top of branches, against a pastel tinted sky with a mountain range visible on the horiz...
Category
2010s Surrealist Color Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
The Bird Watchers
Located in Sante Fe, NM
Maggie Taylor's digital creations are emblematic, afterimages that invite, transport and are unforgettable. Taylor's images are built, layer by layer and object by object, through a ...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Surrealist Color Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Grey Crowned Cranes - Limited Edition Color Photograph, Woman Artist, Birds
By Cheryl Medow
Located in Denton, TX
Grey Crowned Cranes is a limited edition color photograph featuring two large birds perched on top of branches, against a pastel tinted sky with a mountain range visible on the horiz...
Category
2010s Surrealist Color Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Relics 2 Elaborately Constructed Vintage Color Photograph Surrealist Image
By Jane Calvin
Located in Surfside, FL
Chromogenic photo print. hand signed, titled and dated. This is a vintage print, printed in 1987 and editioned 2/10.
Jane L. Calvin (born April 27, 1938) is an artist based in Chicago, Illinois.
Jane Calvin was born in Chicago, Illinois. Her father was an avid art collector and Calvin was brought up in the art world from the time she was born. She attended classes at the Art Institute of Chicago as a young child and went on to pursue a degree in Art History from Bryn Mawr College in Pennsylvania in 1959. Calvin worked as a private art dealer for some time before deciding to continue her education and become a fine art photographer. She graduated from the Art Institute of Chicago with her MFA in 1982.[1] Calvin later went on to be a Professor of Photography at The School of the Art Institute, Illinois Institute of Technology, and Beloit College. She was Adjunct Professor of Photography at Columbia College in Chicago until 2005. Since she started making photographs, Calvin has had exhibits across the nation as well as in Germany and China.
Calvin constructs her photographs by montaging multiple slide projections and found objects into room-sized assemblages in her studio. She then photographs it, making a tableaux into which layers of meaning are woven. She does not use computer editing, just straight photography. Calvin stated, "The images can be seen as my commentary on the political and social roles projected onto society whose desires, manipulated by language and image, conflict with concerns of gender, sexuality, race and female identity."
She says,“I make photographs, I don’t take them,” and in so stating she follows in the path of many Dada and Surrealist precursors, for example, German Kurt Schwitters’ famous Merzbau or Junk House (1923 and following), or Joseph Cornell’s metaphorically vast but physically modestly scaled, even private sculptural interiors of boxes (1930s and following). In her use of projected imagery within and upon the setup of her photographs, Calvin gestures toward earlier 20th century American surrealist photographer Man Ray photographic work, one example of which is Space Writing (Self-Portrait) acquired last year by the Bowdoin College Museum of Art. Calvin’s more recent kindred spirit – although comparatively minimalist in nature and junior chronologically – is Sandy Skoglund. The latter’s photographed installations are a hybrid of unnatural, spectral, coloration and suspended narrative. "I am a maker of meaning, not an observer of it. My medium is photography, although it is includes the processes of sculpture and installation . I build room-sized sets onto which I project images and text, recording the final result with the camera. There are no darkroom or digital tricks. The process is straight photography."
For over 25 years, Calvin has been exploring contemporary society’s approach to issues of gender, female identity, sexuality, vulnerability, and love & desire. Eschewing linearity, the work stands in opposition to the simplicity and minimalism prevalent in earlier 20th century image-making. Her images are elliptical, fragmented, layered, reflecting the contemporary world as one of discontinuity and ambiguity with myriad connections, a world less temporally and spatially fixed than ever before. Through the content carried in found materials and appropriated texts, –she addresses— the social and political conditions that are just out of sight, but remain like some kind of background radiation exerting a subtle but undeniable influence on our society. Pop and pulp references throw a humorous light on cultural identity and gender roles projected onto society. The subject matter, appearing disconnected from its place and time, mysteriously overlaps our own collective awareness. –She asks the viewer to see what has been there all along.–—/> Exhibition publication, Gallery 210, University of Missouri, St Louis, 2005, 'Jane Calvin Sentences' Introduction by Terry Suhre, Director, and Essay "Jane Calvin's Phantasmagoric Spaces" by Dr. Mark White.
This is a Set-Up: fab photo/fictions This exhibition looked at photographers who utilize fabricated imagery and constructed subjects to create their work. These deliberate fictions, and their position in the realms of photography and art, were explored through the work of several highly acclaimed artists: Jane Calvin, James Casebere, Gregory Crewdson, Barbara Kasten, Abelardo Morell, Patrick Nagatani...
Category
1980s Surrealist Color Photography
Materials
C Print
The Night Feast
Located in Sante Fe, NM
Maggie Taylor's digital creations are emblematic, afterimages that invite, transport, and are unforgettable. Taylor's images are built, layer by layer and object by object, through a...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Surrealist Color Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Angel Study, Vintage C Print Color Photograph Signed Surrealist Photo Rome Italy
Located in Surfside, FL
Hand signed, titled and dated verso.
Stephan Brigidi was born in Providence, Rhode Island in 1951, and is a widely published artist whose work has been...
Category
1970s Surrealist Color Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper, C Print
Morning On The Grand Canal, limited edition photograph, archival, signed
By Tom Chambers
Located in Sante Fe, NM
Morning On The Grand Canal, limited edition photograph, archival, signed and numbered
I present unspoken stories that illustrate fleeting moments in time and which are intended to...
Category
2010s Surrealist Color Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
The Gamekeeper's Charge, limited edition photograph, archival, signed
By Tom Chambers
Located in Sante Fe, NM
The Gamekeeper's Charge, limited edition photograph, archival, signed and numbered
I present unspoken stories that illustrate fleeting moments in time and which are intended to evok...
Category
2010s Surrealist Color Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Tart to the Taste, limited edition photograph, archival, signed and numbered
By Tom Chambers
Located in Sante Fe, NM
Tart to the Taste, limited edition photograph, archival, signed and numbered
I present unspoken stories that illustrate fleeting moments in time and which are intended to evoke a m...
Category
2010s Surrealist Color Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
The Little Mermaid
Located in New York, NY
Alice Zilberberg is an award-winning Fine-Art Photographer. She was born in Tallinn, Estonia, raised in Israel, and is now based in Toronto, Canada. Since graduating from Ryerson Uni...
Category
2010s Surrealist Color Photography
Materials
C Print
Marc Lacroix, "Dali with Flowers", original photograph
By Marc Lacroix
Located in Chatsworth, CA
This piece is an original photograph taken by French photographer, Marc Lacroix in 1971. This image depicts Surrealist artist, Salvador Dali, who Lacroix photographed numerous times. There is a large room at the Dali Museum in Figueres, Spain, that is dedicated to Lacroix where his photographs of Dali are on permanent display. This piece is hand signed and numbered 6/15 from the edition of 15 on glossy Kodak photo...
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1970s Surrealist Color Photography
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Photographic Paper
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