Photomontage
フォトモンタージュ / 1910s– / Technique / Photography and Print
Cuts and rejoins photographic fragments, assembling relations and critical meanings that never existed in the original reality.
Cut-out photographs / Mixed scales / Visible seams / Reused print matter
Dictionary entry
- Best used for
- Comparing historical works and their conditions · Deciding which principles survive translation to today's media
- Type
- Observe the type and composition of reference works
- Composition
- Extract the one principle that steers the eye
- Material
- Verify the technique's own materials, process and support
- Caution
- Check not only the look but the medium, technique and social context in which it formed.
- Further study
- Hannah Höch / John Heartfield / Aleksandr Rodchenko