This document analyzes surreal portrait photographs by four artists: Man Ray, Clarence John Laughlin, Frederick Sommer, and Hans Bellmer. It describes Man Ray's grainy black and white photograph with an unrecognizable face and expanded eyes. For Clarence John Laughlin, it discusses a photo combining the face of a person with a statue. The Frederick Sommer photo is blurred like a broad painting, showing an unhappy girl with medium hair. Finally, it examines a very unusual black and white photo by Hans Bellmer that is confusing, appearing to combine a doll, human and fungus.

1. Adam Green
SURREAL
PHOTOGRAPHY
ANALYSIS

2. Man Ray
This is a surreal portrait
photograph taken by Man Ray.
This photograph has been
taken in a grainy black and
white. The face is highly
unrecognizable making it
surreal because we have to
take a second look to see what
the image actually is. The
photo appears to be layered
with a duplicate to expand the
eyes in an artistic way.
The contrast is very high,
meaning the darks are very
dark and the lights and very
bright. This again makes the
image rather unusual, when
combined with the grainy
texture.

3. Clarence John
Laughlin
This is a surreal photo taken
by Clarence John Laughlin.
He has combined two
different images and cut them
into each other to create a
black and white surrealist
photograph.
The photo is unusual because
it combines the face of a
person with the face of a
statue. This is unusual because
we aren't used to seeing
anything like this, so we give it
a second look.
The lack of blending between
the two images makes it look
more rough, perhaps adding
meaning to it.

4. Frederick Sommer
This is a surreal photograph
taken by Frederick Sommer.
The photo has been blurred
and almost looks like it has
been painted with broad
inconsistent strokes of paint.
We can understand very little
about this photograph. We
can see it is a girl with
medium to long hair. She looks
particularly unhappy, but we
cannot see much else.
This is surreal because there
isn’t much to understand so
we keep looking for more to
analyze. It is also tinted
slightly to make it look older.

5. Hans Bellmer
This is a surreal photograph
that has been taken by Hans
Bellmer.
Hans takes very unusual
surrealist photographs. This is
one of his portrait ones.
Because the photo is so
unusual, we can’t really
understand what is going on.
It is in black and white so we
cannot really take any
information from the colours.
It appears to be a doll, but
also a human, but some
fungus? It is very confusing to
look at and analyze.