Claude CAHUN

This year’s centenary of André Breton’s first Surrealist Manifesto (1924) has propelled some of the movement’s big names to new auction heights. But what about its women artists? Have they benefited from the same momentum as their male counterparts? This year, Surrealism was clearly one of the art market’s primary ‘safe havens’. The various different […]

“Begierde im Blick” (the Gaze of Desire) is the main theme of the major exhibition on surrealist photography held at the Kunsthalle, Hamburg running until 29 May 2005.An element of the surrealism movement since its beginnings in 1924, photography allowed to capture images and sensations taken from “real” life. For MAN RAY, Jacques-André BOIFFARD, Hans BELLMER, Manuel ÁLVAREZ BRAVO, Raoul UBAC, André KERTÉSZ, Herbert BAYER and Claude CAHUN, photography provided a way to present a surrealist vision of the world: an impossible reality.