Pixography

Raoul Ubac  - The Nebula  (1939)

Raoul Ubac (1910–1985) was active in the Surrealist movement during the late 1930s. His photographs appeared frequently in the Surrealist publication "Minotaure," alongside photographs by Brassaï, Boiffard, and Atget, as accompaniment to texts by Breton and other Surrealist poets.

Surrealism's efforts to tap the creative powers of the subconscious led them through a landscape of dreams, chance, sexual fantasy, and madness. Photography, essentially a realist medium, yet one with a remarkable power to distort appearances, was appreciated for its unique ability to force a rupture in the surface of perceived reality. "Convulsive beauty," Breton's term for this abrupt encounter with the subconscious, became the group's elusive, aesthetic ideal.

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