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

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

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

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.

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 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.

1. A photomontage is a collage constructed from photographs.

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 Lissitsk

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

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.

High ISO settings are useful for capturing fast action in poorly or unevenly-lit situations. (Taken with ISO 800 sensitivity, 1/800 second at f/6.3.) The white balance setting is used to make the colours in a digital photograph look natural under a variety of lighting conditions.

What is the relationship between ISO and Aperture?

Two controls affect the amount of light that comes into the camera and strikes the image sensor – aperture and shutter speed. The ISO affects how much light is needed to produce a correct exposure. The lens aperture is a diaphragm that is in the lens itself or immediately behind it.

THREE most IMPORTANT camera settings:

• Aperture is the size of the opening of the lens through which light enters to expose the shot.
• Shutter speed is the amount of time that light is allowed to enter through the lens for exposure.
• ISO is the amount of sensitivity toward the light entering into the lens.

these are the phots before editing and this is where i choose the best ones out of all of them and edit them.

theses are the photos edited and the best ones in my opinion. also theses ones we had put coloured sheets over the lights to gives it a nice look.