Photographer's Unconscoius Images

Abstract

The thesis studies the representation of the unconscious in photography, flowing the history of photography and analysing the psychic reality of photographers who worked in different periods and environments. The thesis starts with the inchoate unconscious images generated by photography, studying what circumstances and chance inspired photographers to explore human’s inner world during the pre-surrealism years. After that, the thesis focuses on the cause of the formation and the character of surrealism photography, particularly following modern psychology. The final thesis chapter focuses on how contemporary Chinese and Japanese photographers absorb and Oriental culture accepts surrealist aesthetics and imagination.