Tirza Latimer, independent curator and visiting assistant professor of visual studies, California College of the Arts
With their perverse applications of photography, the Surrealists exposed Western narratives to critical scrutiny in the wake of the world’s first large-scale war. Their appropriation of a fundamentally documentary technology opened the photograph as an imaginary space within which to renegotiate frontiers, rethink received ideas, and reshape images of the self and others. A surrealist-themed SFMOMA Sessions party follows the lecture.