What is surrealist photography theory?

Surrealism photography is a formalism photography school that rose in 1930s. Photographers of this school believe that expressing the real world with realistic creative methods is a task that classical artists have already completed, while the mission of modern artists is to explore the new and unexplored "spiritual world" of mankind. They deliberately express human subconscious activities, accidental inspiration, psychological transformation and dreams. With scissors, paste and darkroom technology as the main means, they piled up, pieced together and reorganized the images in their works, arbitrarily exaggerated and deformed them, and created a surreal "artistic realm" between reality and imagination, concreteness and abstraction. Surrealism art originated from the Surrealism Manifesto published by French writer André Breton in 1924. In this manifesto, he wrote: "Surrealism is a purely mental unconscious activity of human beings. People can express this real thought process orally, in writing or in other ways-the free activity of thought, without any rational control and without any aesthetic and moral prejudice. " Therefore, the philosophical basis of this art school is henri bergson's intuitionism and Freud's psychoanalysis. In their view, people's truest feelings can only be found in the subconscious and dreams. Therefore, people's subconscious activities, sudden inspiration, psychopathy and dream world are the vast world where all arts gallop. Man ray (1890- 1976, USA) is a tireless photographer and artist who has participated in Dadaism and surrealism.