photomontage

Noun

Meaning

a montage that uses photographic images

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After the documentary Le Mystère Koumiko in 1965, Marker made Si j'avais quatre dromadaires, an essay-film that, like La jetée, is a photomontage of over 800 photographs that Marker had taken over the past 10 years from 26 countries. Source: Internet

American Modernism Mid 20th century Le Saut dans le Vide (Leap into the Void); Photomontage by Shunk Kender of a performance by Yves Klein at Rue Gentil-Bernard, Fontenay-aux-Roses, October 1960. Source: Internet

A variation on the collage technique, photomontage utilized actual or reproductions of real photographs printed in the press. Source: Internet

Klein also made use of Photomontage in the famous pseudo-performance picture of himself diving off a wall onto a Paris street Le Saut dans le Vide (Leap into the Void. Source: Internet

Photomontage The Dadaists – the "monteurs" (mechanics) – used scissors and glue rather than paintbrushes and paints to express their views of modern life through images presented by the media. Source: Internet

Ethical issues A photomontage may contain elements at once real and imaginary. Source: Internet

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