Vintage surrealism

I 1948, Argentinian women's magazine Idilio commissioned German-born Grete Stern to illustrate women's dreams.

This haunting show, in the cool gallery spaces high above the city that Dora Maar knew so well, makes it clear that she was indeed a star, a leading figure in Surrealist photo-montage of the mid-1930s. Maar’s largest exhibition in France, it contains over 400 of her works, yet, like the model in the banner, she turns away, and hides her face, remaining enigmatic in her work. In Self-Portrait with Fan (1930), she shows only her reflection in a mirror, her serious gaze shrouded by the circles…

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André Breton, Egg in the church or The Snake (Date Unknown), Musee d'Ixelles

Midnight Train by Eccentrix Gallery. Surreal photo of a woman sitting on a subway with a vintage tv over her head.

Lee Miller - Crystal Ball by George Hoyningen-Huene

A photograph by Kansuke Yamamoto, 1950. Future photographer Kansuke Yamamoto’s father, Goro Yamamoto, was a talented photographer himself. The elder Yamamoto had an affinity for “Pictorialism,” or the artistic practice of distorting or manipulating a photograph in perhaps a painterly manner. Yamamoto didn’t initially follow in his father’s footsteps when it came to photography, and preferred to spend his young years writing poetry. At the age of seventeen Kansuke relocated from his…

Surrealist vintage style collages.