formalism in photography is described as the critical postion that most important aspect of a work of a art is its from. the way it is made and is just visual aspects rather than its narrative content or its relationship to the world.

Formalism, also called Russian Formalism, Russian Russky Formalism, innovative 20th-century Russian school of literary criticism. It began in two groups OPOYAZ, an acronym for Russian words meaning Society for the Study of Poetic Language, founded in 1916 at St. Petersburg

this photo above this text was taken by a photographer called Alexander Rodchenko, this photo shows a massive electrical tower and it looks very nice, however when you normally look at a electric towers you don’t typically think of beauty.

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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1. A photomontage is a collage constructed from photographs.
2. Historically, the technique has been used to make political statements and gained popularity in the early 20th century (World War 1-World War 2)
3. 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
4. Photomontage has its roots in Dadaism…which is closely related to Surrrealism.

These photomontage’s have been created by using other photos.

My Response

I edited these photos using photoshop, with the first montage i used a page of a book and turned the opacity down on it the get the ilusion of the image being overlayed by a book, i also added the statue onto the lampshade and the lady diving i added this to give the audience more to look at it also makes the images more eye-catching.

For the second image i used photoshop and light-room to create this final piece, i used light-room to convert one layer into black and white, and the other layer into a blue tint and add a highlight behind the clock. I then used photoshop to cut sections out of the black and white image and placing it onto the coloured one.