Photomontage

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About this book
Manipulation of the photograph is as old as photography itself, and the origins of the photomontage techniques can be traced back to nineteenth-century photographers' experiments and domestic amusements. In the second decade of this century, however, the idea was 'rediscovered' by the Berlin Dadaists, the 'ready-made' image-making capacity of the medium taking on particular significance at a moment when painting was becoming increasingly abstract. Darkroom techniques for the combination of images have also been excitingly extended and refined in this century, and photomontage has spread and taken hold in very many contexts. It has been used to great effect in political propaganda, and has also embodied or enlivened satire, publicity and commercial art, evocations of the 'brave new world' of the future, surrealist visions and the fantastic, and non-objective art. While concentrating on such major exponents of photomontage as John Heartfield, Rodchenko, El... Tovább

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About this book
Manipulation of the photograph is as old as photography itself, and the origins of the photomontage techniques can be traced back to nineteenth-century photographers' experiments and domestic amusements. In the second decade of this century, however, the idea was 'rediscovered' by the Berlin Dadaists, the 'ready-made' image-making capacity of the medium taking on particular significance at a moment when painting was becoming increasingly abstract. Darkroom techniques for the combination of images have also been excitingly extended and refined in this century, and photomontage has spread and taken hold in very many contexts. It has been used to great effect in political propaganda, and has also embodied or enlivened satire, publicity and commercial art, evocations of the 'brave new world' of the future, surrealist visions and the fantastic, and non-objective art. While concentrating on such major exponents of photomontage as John Heartfield, Rodchenko, El Lissitzky, Raoul Hausmann and Herbert Bayer, the book also covers experiments by artists like Max Ernst, André Breton, Moholy-Nagy and Joseph Cornell who are better known for their work in other areas. The numerous illustrations, many of them published here for the first time, provide the widest variety of examples of photomontage in all its aspects.
Dawn Ades lectures on twentieth-century art at the University of Essex, and is the author of Dada and Surrealism.
With 174 illustrations
Thames and Hudson
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