ABSTRACT
The advent of photography caused a revolution in perspective that those of us living today cannot fully grasp, as our culture is so extensively permeated with its effects that it’s quite impossible to imagine what life was like before. British art critic John Berger has noted: The speed with which the possible uses of photography were seized upon is surely an indication of photography’s profound, central applicability to industrial capitalism. The surrealists took a new view to photography besides the purely documentary, gleaning messages and meanings not often transparent to the average onlooker, nor even necessarily to the photographer, often analyzing the contents of photographs the way one might analyze a dream. Observation and discovery of what may be happening between the scenes or lying just beneath the surface are not limited to the fields of psychoanalysis and photography, but rather are evident in an array of areas.
