Tag Archives: research

Independent, Reading, Resource, Task

rUral landscape introduction

1 Comment

Rural landscape is photography that’s taken in the countryside in order of capturing the life of the countryside for people to look at the image and really realise that the we have beautiful places around us possibly all the time. For me I find that rural landscape photography is used in order for people to really analyse the images of rural landscapes, so that they can really see the beauty in some places because usually people go to amazing places and ignore the whole situation however, these landscape images are almost a reminder for people to look at. Moreover, when these types of images are looked at, people might even see things that they wouldn’t have even noticed whilst being at these places in person. Rural landscapes can also come with an emotional value behind them because the image could be so appealing to people that they have a reaction to the image possibly imagining that they are at the place in which the photo was taken of, imaging how it would feel like being there in that picture.

  • Springtime landscape along the road from Morfasso to Passo del Pelizzone, Piacenza, Emilia-Romagna, Italy
Independent, Reading, Resource, Task

Photot-montage history

1 Comment

A photo. Montage is the process of making a composite photograph by cutting out segments of an image and rearranging them and gluing them once they are rearranged or oven overlapping two or more photographs into one new image.

 Author Oliver Grau in his book, Virtual Art: From Illusion to Immersion, notes that the creation of an artificial immersive virtual reality, arising as a result of technical exploitation of new inventions, is a long-standing human practice throughout the ages. Such environments as dioramas were made of composited images.

The first and most famous mid-Victorian photomontage (then called combination printing) was “The Two Ways of Life” (1857) by Oscar Rejlander, followed shortly thereafter by the images of photographer Henry Peach Robinson such as “Fading Away” (1858). These works actively set out to challenge the then-dominant painting and theatrical tableau vivants.

Examples of Hannah Hoch’s photography work.