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.