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INTRODUCTION

Surrealism

This is a 20th-century avant-garde movement in art and literature, which sought to release the creative potential of the unconscious mind, for example by the irrational juxtaposition of images.

Surrealist artists looked for a way to link to the unconscious as a way to use and create imagination.  (source)

According to James Voorhies, surrealism started in the late 1910s and early ’20s. It was a literary movement with experiments on a new way of expression known as automatism hence leading to unbridled imagination of subconscious.

In 1896-1966 a poet and critic by the names of Andre Breton published a Manifesto of Surrealism in Paris. It then made surrealism become a political and international movement. (source)

The first visual surrealist imagery and techniques used were by the German Max Ernst in 1891-1976, the Frenchman André Masson from 1896–1987, the Spaniard Joan Miró from 1893–1983, and finally an American Man Ray from 1890–1976.

World War II – the atom bomb.

 The History of the atom bomb by collecting images and personal accounts from individuals who have been directly affected by atomic warfare and experimentation. Conceptual design: research antinuke posters and campaigns.

The atom bomb

The mushroom cloud billowing on the August 6, 1945 

A nuclear weapon of the "Fat Man" type

The crew that dropped the Fat man bomb Nagasaki.

A nuclear weapon of the "Little Boy" type

After the bomb hit Hiroshima

People affected by the atomic bomb.

Haunting: Horrifically injured locals are pictured dying on flattened streets strewn with corpses in the western Japanese city only hours after the nuclear bomb, nicknamed 'Little Boy', was dropped.

Antinuke posters and campaigns.