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4. A combination of Dadaist disturbance and
Surrealist subversion can be found still alive and
kicking in contemporary photography, in documents
of performance art and in the world of advertising,
which so dominates our image culture.
ABSURD
5. Photoshop and digital imaging
technologies have made the
relationship between subjects of
photographs and the resulting image
even more untrustworthy than
previously. This gap between the
world of things and the photographic
'evidence' has been exploited by
many artists and photographers,
often with deliberately absurd results.
ABSURD
