Currently on display at the ICP, Twilight Visions: Surrealism, Photography, and Paris, exhibits over 150 photographs, films, books, periodicals that show how real and imaginary versions of Paris were constructed through photographic images during the 1920s and ‘30s.
During this period of social and cultural transformation, photography played a dramatic new role in both avant-garde practice and mass culture. Photographers such as Jacques-André Boiffard, Brassaï, Ilse Bing, André Kertész, Germaine Krull, Dora Maar, and Man Ray used fragmentation, montage, unusual viewpoints, and various technical manipulations to expose the disjunctive and uncanny aspects of modern urban life.
Read the full review of "Twlight Visions" from the New York Times
(Illse Bing, Eiffel Tower, 1934)
The exhibition runs through May 9, 2010
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