multi exposure

a technique in which the camera shutter is opened more than once to expose the film multiple times, usually to different images.

Man Ray –

In 1922, Man Ray (born Emmanuel Radinsky) freed himself from traditional painting by working with light through camera-less photography. He called this technique “rayographs,” where objects were placed on photosensitive paper and exposed to light, creating abstract images. Though the process existed since the 1830s, Man Ray focused on chance, irrational combinations, and abstraction. His early rayographs were featured in Champs delicious (1922), with an introduction by Dada leader Tristan Tzara, and he later explored moving images in his 1923 film Le Retour à la raison.

Rooted in the Dada movement, which rejected traditional art for randomness and spontaneity, Man Ray’s work embraced these ideas in both paintings and photograms. His photography and art also connected with the Surrealist movement, which aimed to explore the unconscious and the uncanny. He created surreal images like Anatomies, which transformed the human form, and iconic objects like Gift (an altered iron) and Indestructible Object (a metronome with a photo of an eye). A major figure in early MoMA exhibitions, Man Ray’s work was featured in Cubism and Abstract Art (1936) and Fantastic Art, Dada, Surrealism (1936–37). In 1941, MoMA added key works, including 24 rayographs, highlighting his desire to make photography as automatic as a typewriter.

Alexander Rodchenko –

Alexander Rodchenko was a ground breaking artist, both politically and artistically. He worked in many fields, including design, printing, painting, sculpture, and photography. He was also an art theorist and educator, teaching at VKhUTEMAS in Moscow starting in 1920. As a key figure in Russian Constructivism, he co-wrote the 1921 manifesto, advocating for the use of industrial materials in art for a society in revolution.

Rodchenko began photography in 1924, inspired by his earlier work in illustration and design. He incorporated his own images into photomontages and made it a key technique. Known for his experimentation, Rodchenko viewed the camera as a versatile tool for drawing, using unique angles and foreshortening. He encouraged photographers to take multiple shots of an object from various angles.

my image inspired by these artists –

for this photo I edited in photo show 3 different photos then made the effect in photo shop by dragging one photo on top of each other and then making so its blend is lighten and did same on other photo and edited the amount of opacity, on one of the photos the opacity was low so it blended in with the face and the other one is a bit higher but still blends in.

with in this photo multi exposure is used to seem like there is multiple of the subject, 3 different photos with this the subject is looking in 3 different directions to make photo look more interesting. which this photo style is seem more like man rays work.

for this photo i used double exposure, within in this photo, which its most similar to Alexzander Rodchenko. which I also tried with the same photo but added one more photo.

Montage –

 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. A similar method, although one that does not use film, is realized today through image editing software. This latter technique is referred to by professionals as compositing, and in casual usage is often called photoshopping. A composite of related photographs to extend a view of a single scene or subject would not be labelled as a montage, but instead a stitched image or digital image mosaic.

John Stezaker –

Stezaker is a British artist who creates collages by combining classic movie stills, vintage postcards, and book illustrations. By manipulating and merging these images, he gives them new meaning. His Mask series, which blends glamorous portraits with scenes like caves or waterfalls, is known for its eerie beauty.

Kensuoke Koike –

Kensuke Koike (b. 1980, Japan) creates unique art by altering vintage photos. His approach focuses on using only the elements within the original image to craft a new, contemporary story. For Koike, each piece starts like a puzzle, with its own challenges to solve.

Aleksander Rodchenko –

In 1927, Alfred H. Barr, Jr., the first director of the Museum of Modern Art, visited Moscow and met Aleksandr Rodchenko, one of the first Anglophone art historians to do so after the Russian Revolution. Barr was shown a wide range of Rodchenko’s work, including Suprematist paintings, woodcuts, posters, book designs, photographs, and kino sets. Rodchenko was proud of his work, especially his 1921 declaration that painting was dead. He demonstrated this with three monochrome paintings—Pure Red Colour, Pure Yellow Colour, and Pure Blue Colour—exhibited alongside works by other Russian artists. These pieces focused on the material nature of paint, using the primary colours to eliminate representation and reduce painting to its simplest form.

image inspired by these artists –

within this photo its seems most like the artist Kensuoke koike, by that the face has been made into multiple circles which look a bit like an optical allusion.

within this photo I edited it so would give this rectangle distorted effect by the parts are lifted up. also the one blow i used the same original photo however I duplicated it and inverted it and then deleted the sections.

for this photo I used a similar method however i brightened the layer underneath and then blended the top layer, to give this effect.