Angus McBean

Angus McBean is a Welsh Photographer who mainly based on surrealist photography. He photographed during the World War II and post war periods, and also created some masks which led to McBean being offered a studio in Victoria, London.

These are some of Angus McBean images which are based on surrealism. I don't really like his work because I feel that there is too much distractions from the main surrealist section of the images. For example, with the picture on the left, the main focus of the picture isn't the head, it is placed among other smaller components which draw the eye away from the surrealist picture. In my work I hope for the surrealist components to be the main part of the image, so that when my audience sees it they are straight away shocked by it. However, because McBean was photographing around the time of World War II, he couldn't of used the modern photo editing software that we use now. I would be interested in how he used methods of editing as I think that this could give me a new depth to my coursework of possibly trying to use analog photography to create a surrealistic effect.