Surreal or surrealism is a word totally misused today. I was reading an essay on the work of photographer Jeff Wall, and saw the word surreal in the first paragraph. His work is not surrealist but the word got me thinking about how much ‘surreal’ is used today. I wrote an essay back in 1991 for a photography course I was taking by independent study (I’ve done a lot of independent study). The professor recently gave me the paper back so, I glanced at it today and decided to excerpt the part on surrealism for current consumption. My work was called surrealist at one point, incorrectly.
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