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August 2, 2008
Surrealist photography has, as its core figures, Man Ray and Hans Bellmer. So what has happened since? Is there a modern surrealist sensibility.
If photography continues to provide contemporary art with some of its most astonishing moments, then women are at the forefront of photographic practice in Australia. Patricia Piccinini, Tracey Moffatt and Rosemary Laing and Pat Brassington are seen, and interpreted, as important artists.
Pat Brassington, untitled, from In marble halls series, 2003
Brassington has stated that she is drawn to surrealism--to the uncanny in the normal.
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