Manipulatory technique, perfected by the Surrealist photographers Raoul Ubac and David Hare (1917-92), by which the negative is heated intensely, causing a deformation in the emulsion. The print created from these negatives showed patterns generated by the deformations rather than by the photographic apparatus used. The formation of photographic images purely by chance and the elements, unmediated by conventional photography, was one manifestation of the Surrealist approach to photography in the 1920s. Brûlage was used alongside such techniques as the photogram and solarization.
— Kelley E. Wilder
Bibliography
- Warehime, M., Brassaï: Images of Culture and the Surrealist Observer (1996)
