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Pierre Jahan: Surrealist photography
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‘I think that the photographer who so much suggests, describes or finds (if he has the duty never to falsify) also has the right to use his shots as material likely to engender the Dream. Surrealism is often derisory or cruel, so why shouldn't it be amiable and poetic?"
Pierre Jahan
Title: Pierre Jahan: Surrealist photography
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‘I think that the photographer who so much suggests, describes or finds (if he has the duty never to falsify) also has the right to use his shots as material likely to engender the Dream.
Surrealism is often derisory or cruel, so why shouldn't it be amiable and poetic?"
Pierre Jahan.
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