Photomontage Reference library
The Oxford Companion to Western Art
... , the assemblage of photographic material, sometimes incorporating other media, to produce a composite image. This includes collage , rephotographed to render the edges inconspicuous, and prints made by superimposing two or more negatives. Both techniques were developed in the 19th century, but photomontage gained greater popularity after its adoption during the First World War by members of the Berlin Dada group, inspired by Cubist collage. Noted exponents were John Heartfield and the Surrealist Max Ernst . Photomontage is now much used in...
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The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Art Terms (2 ed.)
... A technique of image-making from bits of different pre-existing photographs which are cut out, arranged, and pasted down to form a composition, it was largely the creation of the Berlin Dadaists . Prominent among its pioneers were Raoul Hausmann , John Heartfield , and Hannah Höch . Photomontage has also been used by Surrealists such as Max Ernst and Pop artists such as Richard Hamilton...
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The Grove Encyclopedia of American Art
...potential in photomontage and described it as a medium of the future. She explained that her straight photograph, Macy's Window ( 1937 ), was a natural photomontage because it combined the solidity of the physical environment with reflections on the plate glass. In the late 1930s she produced photomontages from multiple negatives such as City Shell, City Street, Hearst Over the People and Spring on Madison Avenue . Produced over several decades, Morgan's photomontages were collected into a book entitled Barbara Morgan Photomontage in 1980 . Harlem...
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The Oxford Dictionary of Art (3 ed.)
...However, as the term is now understood, photomontage involves cutting out, arranging, and pasting down pre-existing photographic images rather than the manipulation of negatives taken for a particular purpose. Photomontage in this sense was largely the creation of the Dadaists (specifically the Berlin Dadaists), who used the technique for political propaganda, social criticism, and generally to assist the shock tactics in which they indulged. Raoul Hausmann ( 1886–1971 ) claimed to have invented photomontage in 1918 ; this is a dubious claim, but...
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The Oxford Dictionary of Art and Artists (5 ed.)
...However, as the term is now understood, photomontage involves cutting out, arranging, and pasting down pre-existing photographic images rather than the manipulation of negatives taken for a particular purpose. Photomontage in this sense was largely the creation of the Dadaists (specifically the Berlin Dadaists), who used the technique for political propaganda, social criticism, and generally to assist the shock tactics in which they indulged. Raoul Hausmann ( 1886–1971 ) claimed to have invented photomontage in 1918 ; this is a dubious claim, but...
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The Grove Encyclopedia of Materials and Techniques in Art
...: ‘Photomontage after World War I’, One Hundred Years of Photographic History: Essays in Honor of Beaumont Newhall , ed. V. D. Coke (Albuquerque, 1975), pp. 84–90 D. Ades : Photomontage: Photography as Propaganda (London, 1976); rev. as Photomontage (London, 1986) J. Heartfield : Photomontages of the Nazi Period (London, 1977) D. Evans and S. Gohl : Photomontage: A Political Weapon (London, 1986) D. Evans : John Heartfield: AIZ/VI, 1930–1938 (New York, 1992) P. Pachnicke and K. Honnef , eds: John Heartfield (New York, 1992) M. Teitelbaum ,...
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Patrizia di Bello
The Oxford Companion to the Photograph
...derived partly from Dada photomontage, partly from her experience as an advertising designer, to make deceptively simple statements about the role of women in commodity culture. Today, software such as Adobe Photoshop has made the juxtaposition of lens‐generated or virtual photographs more versatile, but the clean smoothness of the output seems to lack the visual vitality, rich tactility, and playfulness of scissors‐and‐paste techniques. PDB Patrizia di Bello Ades, D. , Photomontage (1986). Evans, D. , Photomontage: A Political Weapon (1986)....
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A Dictionary of Modern and Contemporary Art (3 ed.)
...vein is the highly elaborate allegorical scene The Two Ways of Life ( 1857 ), printed from thirty negatives on to two sheets joined together. As the term is now generally understood, however, photomontage involves cutting out, arranging, and pasting pre-existing photographic images rather than the manipulation of negatives taken for a particular purpose. Photomontage in this sense was largely the creation of the Dadaists (specifically the Berlin Dadaists), who used the technique for political propaganda, social criticism, and generally to assist the shock...
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A Dictionary of Modern Design (2 ed.)
... The term derives from the technique of combining or superimposing photographic images culled from different sources in order to create new pictorial ideas and relationships. It was explored in avant‐garde circles of the 1920s and 1930s by Modernist designers such as László Moholy‐Nagy , Herbert Bayer , and Edward McKnight Kauffer , as well as in John Heartfield ’s overtly political critiques of the Nazi regime in...
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New Oxford Rhyming Dictionary (2 ed.)
... • décolletage , découpage, Lesage, maquillage, paysage, plage, potage, vernissage • triage • persiflage • fuselage • collage • ménage • badinage • counter-espionage • mirage • entourage • corsage • repêchage • frottage • montage , photomontage • ...
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