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1946 Daydreaming Dalí
There is no shortage of strikingly peculiar photographs of Salvador Dalí, whether he’s staring wide-eyed at the camera for a portrait, jumping around in what looks like a zero-gravity studio, or, as is the case here, sitting up in bed sporting his unique brand of moustache and some rather unusual glasses. The Spanish Surrealist believed that the most creative time of day is that space between consciousness and sleep, so even though he looks like he’s resting, he’s actually hard at work. By this point, Dalí was living in the US – his spiritual home being a hotel, the St. Regis New York – and he had actually been expelled from the Surrealist movement (either for being too surreal or for his fascination with Hitler). Still, that didn’t stop his artistic striving for the subconscious.