Photographs and Surrealism
 

Sontag has an interest in the everyday photograph as Surrealist, as a kind of "found object" (see quote on 52)
 
"Surrealism lies at the heart of the photographic enterprise ... [It] has always courted accidents, welcomed the uninvited ... What could be more surreal than an object which virtually produces itself, and with a minimum of effort?"
 
Rosalind Krauss has also written an essay on the Surrealists and photography (but direct influence from Sontag is questionable: Davey, trying to answer this question, looks at the footnotes in Krauss to see if Sontag appears there (no))
> from Moyra Davey's Index Cards (2020)

> tagged with #surrealism, #photography

> created October 29, 2026 at 11:28:34 AM


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