What is a montage:

Photomontage is the process of using two or more images and creating a final image out of them by either cutting, gluing, overlapping, editing or rearranging them.

Some of my own:

Firstly I opened up two of my images that I liked and that I thought went well together, in this montage I used a toy car and a little bottle with sand and shells in.

I then dragged one image on top of the other and then resized it and placed it where I wished it to go.

I then changed the opacity level to 64% so that the image was more of a blur. To blend the background I then changed the layer from normal to pin light to leave the car by itself.

Finally I cropped the image to the size that I wanted it to be so that there was not too much empty background.

Overall I like this image as it looks as if the toy car has been captured in the glass bottle. I also think that the plain background make the objects pop and stand out drawing the viewer into the image.

For my second montage I opened up two images that we the same in different colours, one in blue and one in pink.

I then dragged one image on top of the other and began cutting out circles with the elliptical marquee tool. I then clicked layer via copy and once I was happy with the amount of circles cut out I deleted the original pink image to leave the blue image and pink circles.

I am happy with how this montage turned out as it shower the viewer two versions of the image at once with the pink peering through breaking up the solid blue.

For this montage I used the same method as above however when I selected the circle I deleted it so reveal the image underneath. I think this edit is very effective and engages the viewer with the shapes and colours.

For this montage I opened two images on top of each other. I then selected half of the top image with the rectangular marquee tool, and deleted it by right clicking and then clicking layer via cut to reveal half of the image underneath. I like how this edit turned out as the blue and purple contrast well with each other drawing in the viewers eye. I have also tried to change the layer of the blue image to pin light to give it an engaging effect with the purple image in the shadows behind, as seen below.

A photomontage is a collage constructed from photographs.

Historically, the technique has been used to make political statements and gained popularity in the early 20th century (World War 1-World War 2)

Artists such as Raoul Haussman , Hannah Hoch, John Heartfield employed cut-n-paste techniques as a form of propaganda…as did Soviet artists like Aleksander Rodchenko and El Lissitsky

Photomontage has its roots in Dadaism…which is closely related to Surrrealism

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WHAT IS PHOTOMONTAGE?

A photomontage is a collage constructed from photographs. Historically, the technique has been used to make political statements and gained popularity in the early 20th century (World War 1-World War 2).

Artists such as Raoul Haussman, Hannah Hoch, John Heartfield employed cut-n-paste techniques as a form of propaganda…as did Soviet artists like Aleksander Rodchenko and El Lissitsky. Photomontage has its roots in Dadaism…which is closely related to Surrrealism.

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Raoul Haussman

Hannah hoch

John Heartfield

Aleksandr Rodchenko

El Lissitzky

A photomontage is a collage constructed from photographs.

Historically, the technique has been used to make political statements and gained popularity in the early 20th century (World War 1-World War 2).

Artists such as Raoul Haussman , Hannah Hoch, John Heartfield employed cut-n-paste techniques as a form of propaganda…as did Soviet artists like Aleksander Rodchenko and El Lissitsky.

Photomontage has its roots in Dadaism…which is closely related to Surrrealism.

Raoul Haussman

Hannah Hoch

John Heartfield

Aleksander Rodchenko

El Lissitsky

• A photomontage is a collage constructed from photographs.
• Historically, the technique has been used to make political statements and gained popularity in the early 20th century (World War 1-World War 2)
• Artists such as Raoul Haussman , Hannah Hoch, John Heartfield employed cut-n-paste techniques as a form of propaganda…as did Soviet artists like Aleksander Rodchenko and El Lissitsky
• Photomontage has its roots in Dadaism…which is closely related to Surrrealism

Example of David Hockneys work I’ve done:

A photomontage is a collage constructed from photographs.

Historically, the technique has been used to make political statements and gained popularity in the early 20th century (World War 1-World War 2)

Artists such as Raoul Haussman , Hannah Hoch, John Heartfield employed cut-n-paste techniques as a form of propaganda…as did Soviet artists like Aleksander Rodchenko and El Lissitsky

Photomontage has its roots in Dadaism…which is closely related to Surrrealism

raoul haussman:

Hannah Hoch:

John Heartfield:

Albert Renger-Patzsch

German photographer Albert Renger-Patzsch was a pioneering figure in the New Objectivity movement, which sought to engage with the world as clearly and precisely as possible.
Rejecting the sentimentality and idealism of a previous generation, Neue Sachlichkeit emerged as a tendency in German art, architecture and literature in the 1920s. In 1928 Renger-Patzsch published The World is Beautiful, a collection of one hundred photographs whose rigorous sensitivity to form revealed patterns of beauty and order in the natural and man-made alike. Embodying a new, distinctly modern way of looking at the world, the book established Renger-Patzsch as one of the most influential photographers of the twentieth century.

‘There must be an increase in the joy one takes in an object, and the photographer should be fully conscious of the splendid fidelity of reproduction made possible by his technique’,

 Karl Blossfeldt

Karl Blossfeldt was a German photographer and sculptor. He is best known for his close-up photographs of plants and living things, published in 1929 as Urformen der Kunst. He was inspired, as was his father, by nature and the ways in which plants grow. From 1890 to 1896 he traveled through Italy, Greece, and North Africa, working for Moritz Meurer, who theorized that natural forms were reproduced in art. From 1898 to 1930 Blossfeldt taught at the Kunstgewerbeschule in Berlin; during this time, he amassed an archive of thousands of photographs of plants that he used as models to teach his students.

“IF I GIVE SOMEONE A HORSETAIL HE WILL HAVE NO DIFFICULTY MAKING A PHOTOGRAPHIC ENLARGEMENT OF IT. ANYONE CAN DO THAT. BUT TO OBSERVE IT, TO NOTICE AND DISCOVER OLD FORMS, IS SOMETHING ONLY FEW ARE CAPABLE OF.”

Image Analysis

The tone in this photograph is dark with light grey tones. The image has many leading lines leading you onto many other parts of the photograph. The colours create a sombre, sad feeling to the image.

• A photomontage is a collage constructed from photographs.
• Historically, the technique has been used to make political statements and gained popularity in the early 20th century (World War 1-World War 2)
• Artists such as Raoul Haussman , Hannah Hoch, John Heartfield employed cut-n-paste techniques as a form of propaganda…as did Soviet artists like Aleksander Rodchenko and El Lissitsky
• Photomontage has its roots in Dadaism…which is closely related to Surrrealism

what is it?

A photomontage is known to be a combination of several photographs joined together for artistic effect or to show more of the subject than can be shown in a single photograph.

1. Historically, the technique has been used to make political statements and gained popularity in the early 20th century (World War 1-World War 2)
2. Artists such as Raoul Haussman , Hannah Hoch, John Heartfield employed cut-n-paste techniques as a form of propaganda…as did Soviet artists like Aleksander Rodchenko and El Lissitsky
3. Photomontage has its roots in Dadaism…which is closely related to Surrrealism

Who started photomontage?

Heartfield was known as “one of the most important European artists who had created himself, the field of photomontage”. The social and political impact of Heartfield’s images has also inspired subsequent artists.

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Examples of photomontage:

Raoul Haussman

Hannah Hoch

John Heartfield

Aleksander Rodchenko

El Lissisky