A breathtaking imagining of what these artist's would have done with photography.

The Artist and the Photograph
Joan Fontcuberta

A few years ago, midway through 1994, I had the idea of organizing an exhibition that would show the incursions into the world of photography of Picasso, Miró, Dalí and Tàpies, to my mind the four most important Spanish artists of this century.

Salvador Dalí

In the same way that automatic writing enabled unforeseen poetic associations to be revealed, so photography provided a way for the Surrealists to fix the unconscious of the gaze. Dalí was attracted very early on by the transformative capacity of the camera, and essays like ‘Photography, Pure Creation of the Mind’ (L’amic de les arts, 1927) bear witness to this fascination. During the thirties, pictorical interventions on different photos and various collages help us comprehend the powerful influence of the photographic vision on the Dalinian oeuvre as a while. On the other hand the mythomaniacal character and calculated eccentricity of the man favored the persistent hovering around of different photographers, among whom we might single out, for their magnificent portraits, Man Ray, Brassaï, Cecil Beaton and Philippe Halsman.

The Loplop bird returns, n.d

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