Photomontage.
Photomontage is basically self explanatory, it is photographs cut up into a collage style to create a
composition, Mainly used by Dadaists as a statement for propaganda and the compositions they created were also created as anti war posters during the second world war.
These days photomontages tend to be created through software like photoshop, or used like collages.
Hannah Hoch
Hannah Hoch - Indian Dancer.
This is a photo montage made by Hannah Hoch, the image contains a photograph of a very famous german actress at the time. The short haircut reflected the short haircut of the modern German New Woman, as she was called who could go out and get a job and get her hair cut and go dancing and do all that. But Hannah Hoch sees this new woman as still somehow trapped in a many ways. The technique used in this image is photographs basically being cut up and stuck together into a composition.
what attracted me to this image was that you had all totally mute colour no solid colour on the original picture then on and around the face you have the solid greys and basic shape which i think make it look interesting.
Heat Filled Xmas - Unknown.
This montage was created near christmas time during the second world war,the artist has taken a picture from te bible and added gas masks to it as a political statement about what the country would be like during that christmas as a way of making people question peace on earth.
I think this image has been made like this through a print maybe, either that or its just painted like this. what attracted me to the image was the fact that it was similar to one of my projects that i had done before this for the book fare where i had pictures of people doing every day modern things in gas masks and i really just liked the statement of it because its saying yeah Christmas is ment to be a happy time but you still need to remember were in a war so they're wont be peace on earth.
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