The Surrealist wanted to “change life”, as Arthur Rimbaud put it. But they understood that to change ways of being, one had first to change ways of seeing. “It is through the power of images, that, in time, real revolutions may well be brought about,” said Breton.
In reinventing the process of creation, the Surrealists introduced new ways of producing visual form, and in their exploitation of the modern image, they brought about a profound transformation in systems of representation.
La Subversion Des Images
Surrealism-Photography-Film / Centre Pompidou 2009/10


