Visual traces of surrealism in street photography

After a short time when photography invented, photographers who had begun to display the mankind and street, have laid the foundations of both documentary and street photography by these actions. Accepting each photo as a document, does not mean that it is also a documentary photograph. As such, in every photograph taken in the street, is not excluded from the scope of street photography. In terms of discipline and purpose, documentary photography and photojournalism are close to each other. Street photography is subjective and does not carry a message, so it has a different location from documentary photography and photojournalism. Street photography accepted as a species, shows up the subjective perception of life and street, in this regard, some features of content in street photography, could become evident. These are the absurd, random and bizarre situations in life. The same features that had been cared about by the surrealist artists, also showed interest in the work of some photographers make up the basics of street photography. In this context, it is thought that there exists traces of surrealism in street photography. In this thesis, the traces of surrealism in street photography, considered to determine with the elements unconscious, free association, absurd, weird, random, chance, dream, symbol, humor, comedy, wit and mythology. These elements are the roots of the interest, shown by the surrealist who are affected by psychoanalysis, to the photographers of the period. The aim of the thesis is, to put forward that the photos on the kind of street photography, is a close bond with surrealism and has the traces of surrealism. Study subject to photos, the sampling method for the purpose of living in Turkey were examined on the basis of photographs of photographers. It has been seen that the factors, mentioned above which are situated in the surrealism and psychoanalysis, have also responses in the kind of street photography. This is demonstrated in the accompanying schematic semiotic analysis and psychoanalytic reading method.