what is photo-montage?
Photomontage is the process and the result of making a composite photograph by cutting, gluing, rearranging and overlapping two or more photographs into a new image. Sometimes the resulting composite image is photographed so that a final image may appear as a seamless photographic print.
History:
- From 1930-1938, John Heartfield used photomontage to create 240 “Photomontages of The Nazi Period” to use art as a weapon against fascism and The Third Reich.
- photo-montages were called “combination printing” and started in the 18th century.
- In late Victorian North America, William Notman of Montreal used photomontage to commemorate large social events which could not otherwise be captured on film.
examples of early photomontage:
Examples of photo montage that I like:
Identity and Place : seaglass , beach junk etc
History and background of objects and how they relate to culture and identity over time.
Must document a range of people of different ages / backgrounds / cultures to combine with found material.