Photographic cropping is always experienced as a rupture in the continuous fabric of reality.

The frame announces that between the part of reality that was cut away and this part there is a difference and that this segment which the frame frames is an example of nature-as-representation, nature-as-sign.

Photography's vaunted capture of a moment in time is the seizure and freezing of presence. It is the image of simultaneity, of the way that everything within a given space at a given moment is present to everything else it is a declaration of the seamless integrity of the real.

To convulse reality from within, to demonstrate it as fractured spacing, became the collective result of all that vast range of techniques to which surrealist photographers resorted and which they understood as producing the characteristics of the sign.