Photorealistic Surrealism

Since photography was invented，what it is，what kind of personality it has，is always thefocus of photography theorists. Nowadays, photography has been diversified, and it hasbecome a modern medium with mechanicalness, technicality, artistic quality andcommunicability. It can be the tool of art photographers to express their ideas, the mediaof Ad. photographers to promote product and the daily records of ordinary people. All ofthese are the representation of the surreal quality of photography. Why photography hasthe quality of surreal？It is because photography has basically completed what the "surreal"represents:"the unity of external reality and internal reality ". Although the surrealnature of photography comes from itself, it is not apparent. Until through the surrealistphotographers’ effort，it was discovered. Surrealist photographers not only practiced toexplore and expand the individual nature of photography, but also influence today’sphotography. Therefore, the study of the surreal nature of photography is meaningful fortoday’s photography.