Surrealism

The out-of-print volume 'Transréalités' by Arthur TRESS contains photographs taken in Brooklyn & New York in the 1950s, including the dream images and fantasies that made him famous. The selection reflects in particular the influence of neo-realist film.

In 'Kings Road', Mona KUHN examines the Schindler House in Los Angeles, an avant-garde hub for intellectuals & artists in the 1920s & 30s. Alongside reproductions she made a series of solarized gelatin silver prints, a technique favored by the Surrealists

This photo book provides an overview of the work by Martine FRANCK, conceived by herself. Feminism, social disadvantage, the elderly, Buddhism, portraits as well as landscapes are themes that have been taken up again and again during her worldwide travels

In the volume 'Atelier Man Ray', Herbert Molderings captures the artistic environment as well as those objects that the latter collected and produced himself in order to compose lifelike arrangements from them - an impressive view of an imaginative cosmos

Salvador Dalí is shown roped off a helicopter by his famous mustache, or in a rain of popcorn and baguettes. French Magnum photographer Philippe HALSMAN and the painter created a body of work over three decades that was in many ways ahead of its time.