100 SURREAL STREET PHOTOGRAPHS - B&W

Tracing back the art trail
The photographers’ confrontation with their surrounding
world is a pretty precarious state of mind. They instantly sketch
fortuitous movements and all-changing expressions and faces.
But even more delicate is the reaction to the result of their
work appearing before their eyes. They are captivated by the
surprising impact of the placement of the elements but should
they correct the overexposed hand, the blotted blacks, the
technical imperfections? They should not finally touch it, not a
thing. Because when mojo appears better step back and
accept it as it is.
In Koushik's street portrait we find a dream-world (rather
nightmarish) and a surreal approach. The two girls, in a
majestic capture of empty glazes and uncanny gestures, seem
ghosts of Alice in the wonderland.
But mainly we find the art trail and how old mastery is
populating every new emerging talent: From Koushik portraits
back to Brandt's nudes, the latter inspired by the derivative
photography of Man Ray, back to Brandt's luminous and
ominous frames, influenced, in their turn, by the Citizen Kane's
low-angles.
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