Eric Johansson’s Photography Impact On Surrealism and Photographic Arts

Document Type : Original Article

Author

Photography, Cenima and Television Dept, Faculty of Applied Arts, Helwan University, Egypt

Abstract

Most critics consider Contemporary Eric Johansson One of the greatest photographers of the 21st century. To the diversity of the methods of its photographic visual formulations, Despite his intellectual affiliation to the Surrealist school, he has developed his direction.
Eric system In the production of a picture based on the idea of a composite of more than one topic and merged them creatively to appear as an integrated unit, named Realistic surrealism
finally.
Many equipment and tools must be available to be used in the production of photographs belonging to the real-life and the equipment for the general atmosphere designed for it, accessories and Special effects.
Critics and theoreticians of art are classified Eric Johansson as a surreal and realistic because its visual treatment of subjects was not as classical surreal, abstract, or cubism, but it tends to use realistic forms that are one of the most distinctive features For photography.

Research problem:
The research problem is the central question:
What is the impact of Eric Johansson work in Photographic Art in General and the surreal movement Special?
A range of research questions and queries have emerged from this question, which formulated as follows:
The Research Questions:
1- Why do most critics consider Eric Johansson one of the greatest photographers of the 21st century?
2- What is the limitation of technical trends in realism?
3- Why did the critics and theorists classify the works of art Eric Johansson as surreal realistic?
4- What equipment and tools should be available to be used in the production of photographic images belonging to Eric’s work?
5- What characterized the works of Eric Johansson photographs?
6- Is Eric Johansson Founder of one of the general surrealist trends and photographic Special؟
7- What are the features and characteristics of surrealist photography?

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