June 20, 2004
Harry Callahan
Harry Callahan, Ragsdale Beauty Shop/Poodle Cut, Detroit, 1951
It is what you see everyday in the city isn't it. The commonplace. Most pass by the images such as these in our public visual culture
The image has a a touch of the surreal yet it is grounded in reality in a way that surrealism never was.
Is this prioritizing reality over illusion and visual fact over the symbol the overccoming of surrealism in the visual arts?
It certainly is an overcoming of photography's traditional reportial function and a reconstruction of photography.
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