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The 'Man Ray School of Photography': Reviewing Surrealism in Fashion Photography of the 1930s

abstract: In the 1930s, several key fashion photographers were practicing Surrealists: Man Ray, Georges Hoyningen-Huené, Horst P. Horst, Cecil Beaton, and Erwin Blumenfeld. Each photographer explored surrealist-influenced fashion photography and drastically changed the way fashion was seen in the pages of Harper’s Bazaar and Vogue magazine. While scholars believe the assimilation of surrealist aesthetic devices in fashion photography commercialized Surrealism during the thirties, such photographic output has yet to be assessed in relation to surrealist thought and practice. This thesis argues that Ray, Hoyningen-Huené, Horst, Beaton, and Blumenfeld did not photograph fashion in the surrealist style to promote desire for the commercial product. Instead, they created new pictures that penetrated, radicalized, and even destroyed conventions of mass culture from inside the illustrated fashion magazine. / Dissertation/Thesis / Masters Thesis Art History 2018

Identiferoai:union.ndltd.org:asu.edu/item:49143
Date January 2018
ContributorsXepoleas, Lynda May (Author), Mesch, Claudia U. (Advisor), Toon, Richard (Committee member), Hoy, Meredith (Committee member), Sewell, Dennita (Committee member), Arizona State University (Publisher)
Source SetsArizona State University
LanguageEnglish
Detected LanguageEnglish
TypeMasters Thesis
Format89 pages
Rightshttp://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/, All Rights Reserved

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