Surrealism

André Breton

André Brenton is a french writer and poet. He is the co-founder and leader of Surrealism he also wrote a book called Surrealist Manifesto and he defined surrealism as "pure psychic automatism". He was in a political movement called Dada.


conscious mind

The conscious mind is made up of everything that's currently in a person's awareness for example thoughts, feelings, memories, perceptions and self-awareness and many more.

unconscious mind

The unconscious mind is the part of the mind that operates without conscious awareness and is thought to influence conscious thought and behavior. The unconscious mind can include repressed feelings, hidden memories, habits, thoughts, desires, and reactions.  

The difference between conscious and unconscious is that the conscious mind controls awareness things now and the unconscious mind is  about hidden desires and memorys.

Man Ray

Man Ray was an American visual artist who spent most of his career in Paris. He was a significant contributor to the Dada and Surrealist movements, although his ties to each were informal. He produced major works in a variety of media but considered himself a painter above all. He was best known for his pioneering photography, and was a renowned fashion and portrait photographer. He produced major works in a variety of media but considered himself a painter above all. He was best known for his pioneering photography, and was a renowned fashion and portrait photographer. He is also noted for his work with photograms, which he called "rayographs" in reference to himself. 

Noire et Blanche (Black and White), 1926

First published in Vogue magazine, this iconic photograph depicts Kiki de Montparnasse’s head next to an African ceremonial mask. The subjects share similitaries in shape and expression but show a sharp colour contrast, which is also referenced in the title, along with the photographic process. The picture also expresses the artist’s interest in African art.

In 2017, Noire et Blanche was purchased at Christie’s Paris for 2.6 million euros ($3,120,658), becoming the 14th most expensive photograph to ever sell at auction. 


Herbert Bayer


Herbert Bayer was an Austrian and American graphic designer, painter, photographer, sculptor, art director, environmental and interior designer, and architect. He is recognized for his innovative graphic and advertising design work. He was Influenced by the photographic works of László Moholy-Nagy and the modernist Bauhaus credo. 

Lonely Metropolitan made in 1932

A Bauhaus-trained graphic designer who immigrated to New York City in 1938, Bayer was known for his innovative work in advertising and book publishing. Although never formally connected with Surrealism, he was fascinated by dream imagery and embraced photomontage as a means of visualizing the psychological realities of modernity. In 1931 he began a series of photomontages illustrating his own dreams, which included this emblematic image in which the artist’s eyes stare from the palms of his hands, cut off at the wrists and floating mysteriously in the courtyard of a Berlin apartment block. 

Mood Board

For my idea im going to ask someone what there favorite song is and then take a photo of them and layer then on to the music score and there expression will mach the song e.g happy song  will be smiling and some heavy metal will be angry. This will be shot in the studio.

Paper plan

Contact sheet 

original

Edit

With this image it is portrait and the others are landscape next time i shoot i will stay at one or the other.

 What will you do to move your project forward? 

Normal Photo

Music Sheet

Edit 

For my next shoot I am going to shoot someone in the studio again but this time with a electric guitar.

Contact sheets

This is the photo i am goint to edit 

These edits are all songs from a band called system of a down 

I like the second edit because it stands out and looks like a band cover also it looks like the guitar is hitting the song title. For the edit I used a curve and changed the hue. Also for this edit I have put the sheet music to the song in the background. The guitar is made to look like it is hitting the song title.

For my next shoot I am going to shoot two people one with drums sticks and the other with a guitar in the studio. 

Band duo mood board

As I'm now going to shoot 2 people i am going to look at how famous people have posed in photographs.