- 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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Photomontage Explained
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
Photomontage
What is a photomontage?
It is a collage constructed from photographs. The technique has been used to make political statements and became well known in the early 20th century, mainly WW1 and WW2.
Dadaism was an art movement which was formed during the first world war in zurich in negative reaction to the horrors of the war. “The art, poetry and performance produced by dada artists is often satirical and nonsensical in nature”.- Raoul Hausmann.
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
photo montage
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
Photo Montage
- 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
You’re going to utilise your images from the studio object shoot and other material you have created recently for this…
Using your OBJECTS photographs to create experimental new images either by hand or using image manipulation software OR both!!!
Cut / Slice / Trim / Slide / Join / Add / Combine / Match / Mix / Tear / Scrunch / Fold / Stick / Stitch / Sew / Weave / Holes / Burn / Singe / overlap
My photomontage work
PhotoMontage
A photomontage is a collage constructed from different photographs. It can also be describes as 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.
The technique has been used to make political statements and became well known in the early 20th century, mainly World War I and II.
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.
Dadaism
Dada or Dadaism was an art movement of the European avant-garde in the early 20th century, with early centres in Zürich, Switzerland, at the Cabaret Voltaire. New York Dada began c. 1915, and after 1920 Dada flourished in Paris. Dadaist activities lasted until the mid 1920s.
Originally a colloquial French term for a hobby horse, Dada, as a word, is nonsense. As a movement, however, Dadaism proved to be one of the revolutionary art movements in the early twentieth century, born as a response to the modern age.
Photo-Montage
- 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
Examples
Photomontage techniques
An analogue photomontage is one that is produced by hand. This may involve cutting up or tearing images, and using them to produce something new and different. Here are some of mine:
A digital photomontage is one that is produced perhaps on a computer. You can use photoshop for example, in order to edit your images. Here are some of mine:
mary ellen bartley
What type of photography does she do?
She is known for exploring the tactile and formal qualities of the printed book and its potential for abstraction. Her photos are alive with questions – about what we do and don’t see and the stories we tell. Yet the spirit of her work provides a reflective response, a respite, from a noisy and chaotic world. By emphasizing the unique “aura” and materiality of printed matter, Bartley’s work offers a celebration of textural and tactile properties, a particularly potent act in this increasingly digital age.
Examples of her work:
These photos were taken by Mary during the lockdown due to covid 19. She set herself a challenge where she would pick 6/7 objects that had similarities which she would then photograph every day of the lockdown in different positions/ways. The objects she had chosen were very basic everyday objects which would are usually just used and ignored. Mary managed to make these objects look interesting and she was very creative with how she changed every photo every day whether it was the lighting, angles and positioning.
Personally, her most interesting picture out of the collection of images she had produced was this one:
My reasoning for this is because it’s the most creative one yet. She has used one of her objects (toilet paper) to create outlines which if you analyse the other pictures, they are very clearly the objects she had chosen. The use of light as well to emphasise the shadows and colour for example the orange soap.
Photomontage (history and examples)
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 the final image may appear as a seamless physical print.
It was first used as a technique by the dadaists in 1915 in their protests against the First World War. It was later adopted by the surrealists who exploited the possibilities photomontage offered by using free association to bring together widely disparate images, to reflect the workings of the unconscious mind.
- A photomontage is a collage constructed from photographs.
The Art Critic (1919–20)
Tate
- 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 Lissitsk
- Photomontage has its roots in Dadaism…which is closely related to Surrrealism
John Heartfield is born in Berlin, Germany 19 June 1891 as Helmut Franz Josef Herzfeld. In 1916, he changes his name to John Heartfield in protest against the anti-British sentiment in Germany, expressed, for example, in the manner of which people greeted each other: ” – God punish England – May he punish it”.
Mary Ellen-Bartley inspired experiments
Mary Ellen-Bartley is a photographer who mainly focuses on taking photos of books. Just as the covid-19 pandemic hit she was in italy at the time taking photos at the Giorgio Morandi studio and library, where she has to quickly leave and get the next flight back to her home in new york.
it was during her quarantine where she decided to chose 7 house hold items to photograph for every day of April. an example of one of the days she photographed is just above.
every day she would re-arrange each object, some days would be more subtle tan others however, each day was different. as you tell from the photo above and below.