Found, borrowed and stolen: the use of photographs in French surrealist reviews, 1924-1939
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Found, borrowed and stolen: the use of photographs in French surrealist reviews, 1924-1939 (2006) is a book by Linda Marie Steer.
From the publisher:
- "This dissertation looks at the ways in which found, borrowed and stolen photographs from a variety of nineteenth-century institutional frameworks were removed from their presentational places and subsequently reframed in French surrealist periodicals between 1924 and 1939. The focus of the analysis is a study of the photographs in three reviews: La Revolution surrealiste, published from December 1924 to December 1929; Documents, published from 1929 to 1930; and Minotaure, published from 1933 to 1939. Discussion begins by approaching the various domains from which the surrealists drew their found photographs, including medical and psychiatric science, ethnography, forensic science and commercial photography, and continues by tracking the shifting meaning of each image from its original context to its reframing in the particular surrealist periodical. An analysis of the strategic deployment of this group of photographs reveals the ways in which surrealism drew on existing images to construct its own identities, which varied according to the politics of the individual reviews. This dissertation makes a new contribution both to an understanding of the nature of the meaning of photography and to scholarship on surrealism."
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