Surrealism and Body as Landscape

I decided to choose two images that belong in a category of surrealism. Both images are by Jerry Uelsman, who is know for creating imageries using darkroom techniques. I believe that those two images by Jerry Uelsman is a good example of surrealism in Europe. Uelsman's images are similar to Andre Kertesz' series of images where he distorted woman's body using mirrors, because surrealism's goal was to surpass painting and no longer illustrate truth in photography. I feel it was clearly fulfilled by Uelsman, because both images have woman as part of landscape, and water to illustrate the characteristics of surrealism. It was interesting to learn that male artists viewed woman figure as an object rather than a character. Also those images are not interested in illustrating truth, but it allows the viewer to interpret the images in their own ways. According to the reading, "1900-1940 Heterosexuality and Modernism,' article, "The female model has no role, no action, no purpose, other than to be observed.' She possesses neither agency nor subjectivity, being subject only to the looks and actions of others. It was interesting to see such theory behind surrealism. I always heard the word, "Surreal," in our studio classes, but I wasn't sure where it came from until now. After the reading, I found that the relationships between Uelsman and Kertesz's work fascinating.
Also I realized that those images by Uelsman had similarities from images that we saw in last week's lecture where a woman decided to become a part of nature by being naked out in nature and submerging herself to the scene. It seems that Uelsman's images falll into the categories of both surrealism, and body as landscape equally well. It was interesting to see the contrast between a body in a landscape of Pictorialism versus where body becomes the part of the landscape itself.