Surrealities: Experiments with Digital Photomontages

By Harry Borgman

The dreamlike quality of the images is fascinating and the ideas can be very intriguing. Using the photographic medium to create surreal images is most effective as the objects appearing so real tend to fool the minds eye. It must be real, its a photograph of a real object. Very diverse objects and images can be used together to create unsettling results for the viewer. While some surreal images can be created that are very mysterious, many can also have a very humorous aspect to them. To see oversized vegetables suspended in a room or an Ethiopian Coke bottle floating in the sky is abnormal and funny as well.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Xlibris US
• Release date: Oct 5, 2004
• ISBN: 9781477181317

Harry Borgman

Harry Borgman's professional career has spanned many fields including graphic design, cartooning and illustration. He was art director on the Chevrolet account at Campbell - Ewald advertising agency and the Chariman of the Advertising Department at the Society of Arts and Crafts ( now the College for Creative Studies ). He has written several art technique books for Watson Guptill Publications, Dover Publications recently reprinting his book "Pen and Pencil Drawing Techniques." For many years he worked as a freelance artist in Detroit, New York and Paris, France. As a painter he works in the watercolor and acrylic mediums and is also very active as a sculptor, doing wood carvings as well as wood and metal constructions. Recently he has been experimenting with the computer medium, currently creating photomontages and collages on the computer for a proposed exhibition.

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Copyright © 2004 by Harry Borgman. 21045-BORG

Library of Congress Number: 2003096421

ISBN #:      Softcover         978-1-4134-2952-7

                   Ebook              978-1-4771-8131-7

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FOREWORD

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ABOVE: A parody on Dali, titled If Dali Had Deadlines.

A poster for an exhibition at the Krasl Art Center.

When I first encountered Borgman’s work, it intrigued me so thoroughly that I was eager to curate an exhibition for two primary reasons. First, his images are compelling in their beauty and power, and innovative art that is also both approachable and appealing is rare enough; it is fun, once in a while, to please the audience. Second, I wanted to introduce an artistic use of new technology in an environment which I could observe viewers’ facial and body language, and