Emiel van Moerkerken (1916-1995) - Lot 103

Emiel van Moerkerken (1916-1995) Dog in the street (negative), 1932. Vintage silver print. Stamp Copyright (c) - E. van Moerkerken - Amsterdam , signature, title, date and annotations in pencil on verso. 15.2 x 23 cm - frame Once close to the Parisian Surrealists, Emiel van Moerkerken distanced himself from them after falling out with André Breton over the group's political orientation. Few photographers can claim to have adopted a truly Surrealist approach, but his adoption of value-reversal techniques (solarization, negative printing) - whose function is to introduce cognitive confusion into the viewer's mind - makes Emiel van Moerkerken one of the movement's leading representatives in the Netherlands.