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Photomontage. Meaning. A variation of a “collage” which is a segment of Remix. A more modern version is what we commonly refer to as “ photoshopping ”. T he process (and result) of making a composite photograph by cutting and joining a number of other photographs - PowerPoint PPT Presentation
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Photomontage
Meaning
• A variation of a “collage”
• which is a segment of Remix.
• A more modern version is what we commonly refer to as “photoshopping”.
• The process (and result) of making a composite photograph by cutting and joining a number of other photographs
• The composite picture was sometimes photographed so that the final image is converted back into a seamless photographic print.
History• Started in the 1800s• But the name
“photomontage” was coined at the end of the war in 1919
• Evolved into “photocollage” in Europe. (large and ambitious works that added typography and brushwork or even actual objects stuck to the photomontage)
• Dioramas were developed and inspired by photomontages
• Got very popular during World War I, when photographers started to produce postcards showing soldiers on one plane and lovers, wives, children, families, or parents on another
• Husband-and-wife team of Gustav Klutsis and Valentina Kulagina created pioneering photomontage work as propaganda, such as the journal USSR in Construction, for the Soviet government
Photo “Manipulation”
• Is alterations made to a previously unchanged image. Often, the goal of photo manipulation is to create another realistic image.
• In the United States, for example, the National Press Photographers Association (NPPA) have set out a Code of Ethics promoting the accuracy of published images
Scrapbooking
• Most frequently used way to “photomontage” these days.
• Images are pasted into scrapbooks/albums and “collaged” along with paper tools and decorative items or souvenirs
• Digital scrapbooking = Facebook photo albums??
Example
George Grosz
-was a German artist known especially for his savagely caricatural drawings of Berlin life in the 1920s.
-Oil painting, graffitti, children’s drawings
-Republican Automatons, 1920, in the collection of MOMA New York
Example-German artist
-Studied Art all her life, before & after the war
- She is best known for her work of the Weimar period, when she was one of the originators of photomontage.
-Cut with the Dada Kitchen Knife through the Last Weimar Beer-Belly Cultural Epoch in Germany, 1919, collage of pasted papers, 90 x 144 cm, Staatliche Museen, Berlin.
• Hannah Höch
Grace Jones by Jean-Paul Goude
