Photography in Communist Poland: a surrealist spirit?
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Le 2010-07-01 12:23:51
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There was never a Surrealist movement as such in Poland, neither during the inter-war years nor after 1945. Nevertheless, certain strategies used by the Surrealists in cities like Paris and Prague in the 20s helped the Polish photographic scene, after the Second World War, make its greatest strides towards a modern conception of the image.
In a post-war cultural context first dominated by pictorialist aesthetics, then influenced by socialist realism, and finally polarized by propagandist photoreportage, the avantgarde sought to reclaim a place in the field of photographic art using various techniques (e.g. photomontage, chemical experiments, and reappropriation of images) and methods popular in Surrealist circles (e.g. staging and “flânerie”).
What was at stake here in Communist Poland was of course not only artistic, but also existential and political: re-investing the field of art via Surrealist visual poetics meant nothing less than re-investing reality itself.
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