On The Surrealist Photography

At the beginning, recording ability of photography made people surprising, It can preserve the moment history, and reflect the reality and humanity. We can say that realism is the essence of photography; we can get a lot of information from these typical images.With the development of photography, photography is not only a kind of accurate records and reproduce, this traditional concept was changed, from the "recording the world " to the "creating the world ",became personal expression. Human's ability of thinking is not only focus on the surface, people's imagination can see through the surface, find the truth, the past and the future. Realism writes the reality, surrealism writes dreams, it is the combination of the real world with imagery, it does not seek for scientific accuracy, not responsible for the scientific testing, it is the personal subjective explanation.Surreal photography is an important school. According to researching its background and art features, this article argues for its importance, try to discus the hidden truth in these images.There are 3 chapters:Chapter 1: Introduce the background, the overview of surrealism. Including historical background, philosophy, aesthetic features. Define the notion of surrealism.Chapter 2: Focus on techniques and schools of surrealism photography. Research on how to use language to express what inside the photography images, care life, demonstrates the true life in an artistic way.Chapter 3: Discussions about surrealism photography are rational or not, true or not. It is always a non-stop topic. Surrealism photography use a more artistic way to describe the world, seems different from the appearance of real world, but it is a way closer to the essence of the true.