Photo montage

Photo montage

 

 

The term, ''Photo montage,'' means when someone makes a composition or 2 or more images together by either cutting them or joining them and creating a whole new image.

It was promoted by the German Dadaists to construct rather than paint.

 

The first famous photo montage image is ''The two ways of life,'' which is a mid-Victorian image. Fantasy photo montages were very popular in the Victorian era.

 

 

 

 

Romare Bearden used a series of black and white photomontage projections as a technique. His method started off by compositions of paper, paint and photos on boards.

 

Photo montage is the opposite of collage as collage has sharp edges while photo montage blends together.

 

The meaning of juxtaposition of the images are: newspaper, posters, catalogues, tickets and letters.

 

One can create several things with these programs, especially nowadays as we have all these programs to help us. Some photos are so well manipulated that you wont even notice that they are manipulated. Photo manipulation can play with our vision, we can be unsure about the things that we're seeing, the depths, the location, perspective and space.

 

Nowadays, photo montage became much easier because of the computer and new technology. Such programs are: Photoshop, Paint shop pro, Corel photopaint, Pixelmator and GIMP.

 

 

 

References:

 

Photomontage - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. 2015. Photomontage - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. [ONLINE] Available at: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Photomontage. [Accessed 30 January 2015].

 

Kinds of Photomontage . 2015. Kinds of Photomontage . [ONLINE] Available at: http://courses.washington.edu/hypertxt/cgi-bin/book/pmontage/kindsofpm.html. [Accessed 30 January 2015].