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Dreams in Photography
Daniel Robles Lizano

1 To Dream, interpretation with Photography

I choose these as my topic because dreams when you are asleep function as a movie, and what is a movie but lots of photographs played together. Even though you don’t see you’re dreams in photographs played together, when you remember you’re dreams you remember them sort of like images, like photographs, memories of the dream you had the night before, and that is what is done in modern times with the special equipment, you can recreate the effect of a image that is stocked in you’re mind from last nights dream, or make you’re own dream, and by the right equipment I mean by photography cameras or film cameras, like many famous surreal film makers such as Luis Buñuel, or many famous photographers such as Man Ray, make dreams come true in live image, sometimes with special effects or sometimes by the position of the object, the light, the perspective, photomontage, they can manage to make a photograph an amazing dream, in modern time photography has impressed the eye of humanity, and caught my eye, one of the major reasons of me picking this topic is thanks to Teun Hocks his photographs can be such dream like that they appear to be real, when you see one of his photographs you can tell it’s a dream memory, like if you had a dream and you could remember it, the image that got stocked in you’re head could be exactly the same as Teun Hock’s photograph.

With photography in photograph cameras and film cameras you can have a really vivid and real-like dream, you can’t sometimes distinguish from the real and from the image taken, but in dreams what is real and what is not? Who can tell you a dream isn’t real, so images can be as real as a dream is, as imaginative as the dreamer could be, and as impressive visually as the artist (in this case talking about films and photography) can make it.

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