Photomontage
フォトモンタージュ / 1910s– / Technique / Photographic Techniques
Cuts and rejoins photographic fragments, assembling relations and critical meanings that never existed in the original reality.
At a glance
Visual cues
- Cut-out photographs
- Mixed scales
- Visible seams
- Reused print matter
Best used for
- Turning political or advertising rhetoric against itself with its own pictures
- Showing scenes and relations that never existed with the force of photography
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Dictionary entry
- Type
- Cut headlines from existing print and paste them at unmatched sizes
- Composition
- Shift scale on purpose, putting small figures beside enormous objects
- Material
- Magazine and newspaper cuttings, paste, rephotography, seams kept or hidden
- Caution
- Copying only the cutting and pasting leaves fragments side by side with no collision, and the criticism the method existed for never lands.
- Further study
- Hannah Höch / John Heartfield / Aleksandr Rodchenko
Related entries
- Dada (ダダ)Shared effects: Rebellion / Play / Exhilaration.Compare Photomontage and Dada
- Constructivism (構成主義)Shared effects: Rebellion / Exhilaration.Compare Photomontage and Constructivism
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