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Straight Documentary Photography and Surrealism: A Dialectical Resolution

Friday, November 8, 2013: 12:30 PM - 1:45 PM
Bayside A (Sheraton New Orleans Hotel)
Alex Leme , University of Arkansas at Little Rock
This presentation shows that Surrealist documentary photography can subvert the very "straightness" of the medium and its apparent realism in order to create the surreal. It further claims that this type of photography can be more disruptive of conventional norms than the contrivances of darkroom manipulation.