"Starting in the 1920s, avant-garde photographers from Europe began branching out from conventional styles, using new techniques to create surreal images reflecting the imagined and the inner self, while redefining the world around them. The <a href=""http://www.museum-bellerive.ch/en/"" target=""_blank"">Museum Bellerive</a>, Zurich is exhibiting over 200 of these rare photographs in ""<a href=""http://www.museum-bellerive.ch/en/exhibitions/realsurreal/"" target=""_blank"">Real Surreal</a>."" Running until July 24, it brings together the likes of Herbert Bayer and Grete Stern to provide a window into a period of rapid innovation within photography, when suddenly anything could be captured by the camera lens -- even the impossible.<br /><strong><br />Pictured above:</strong> ""Self-Portrait"", Herbert Bayer, 1932."