Prominent Photographers
Victoria and Albert Museum Surrealist Photography
Modern Surrealism: Kyle Thompson
Man Ray, Marcel Duchamp, Max Ernst, Andre Breton, Brassai, Salvador Dali, Philippe Halsman, Andre Kertesz and Hans Bellmer
Find websites that have lots of images of their work and provide links.
https://www.metmuseum.org/toah/hd/surr/hd_surr.htm
https://www.tuttartpitturasculturapoesiamusica.com/2014/07/surrealism-art-movement.html
There are seven prominent surrealist photographers who were involved in this movement. Salvador Dali, Andre Breton, Yves Tanguy, Rene Magritte, Joan Miro, Max Ernst and Leonora Carrington.
Salvador Dali - https://www.dalipaintings.com/
Andre Breton - https://www.artsy.net/artist/andre-breton
Yves Tanguy - https://www.artsy.net/artist/yves-tanguy
Rene Magritte - https://www.renemagritte.org/
Joan Miro - https://www.artnet.com/artists/joan-mir%C3%B3/
Max Ernst - https://www.moma.org/artists/1752
Leonora Carrington - https://www.moma.org/artists/993
History
It was a time of growth, expansion, and development, albeit punctuated by wars, economic depression, and civil strife.
Arts World
Artists and photographers had looked into dreams and imagination for inspiration. In order to help society by rejecting the current (at the time) perceptions of life due to the war. By doing so they helped society to be influenced and perceive the world a little bit differently from what they perceived the world to be after the world. The concept of surrealism had been inspired by dreamlike ideas using real concepts from the world but adding a twist to give this idea of life being a dream. Usage of photomontage, solarisation and photograms.
Technology
After WW1 the military technology of the time included important innovations in machine guns, grenades, and artillery, along with essentially new weapons such as submarines, poison gas, warplanes and tanks.
In fact, artist, writer and founder of the Post-Surrealist collective, Grace Clements, writing on the work of the Social Surrealists in the mid-1930’s labelled their project that of “Proletariat Surrealism”