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DAY 308 | PHOTOGRAPHIC CURIOSITIES |
Surreal Dreamscapes
PLUMBING THE DEPTHS OF THE SUBCONSCIOUS
“Listening to Irene, I lapsed into reverie. This dream of hers was pure gold, intellectual ambrosia—a gift from the gods.”—Irvin D. Yalom, M.D.1
Sigmund Freud once personified the human subconscious as an anthropomorphic “dream-weaver” who sat in a person’s mind spinning yarns as they slept, enshrouding profound messages within an enigmatic tapestry of images and symbols.
While the abstractions and dark mysteries of the dream world have influenced art since time immemorial, they have been given new life in the medium of surreal photography, as ...
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