Photo Montage Photomontage is the process and the result of

making a composite photograph by cutting, gluing, rearranging and

overlapping two or more photographs into a new

image. Sometimes the resulting composite image is photographed so that a final

image may appear as a seamless photographic print.

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effortlessly titled ‘Cut with the Dada Kitchen Knife through the Last Weimar Beer-Belly Cultural Epoch in Germany’, shows her ideals and techniques in synthesis. A collage of newspaper clippings, the work challenges the racist and sexist codes upholding Weimar Germany. Throughout her career, Höch would challenge the marginalised place of women in twentieth century Germany. She drew together fashion magazines, illustrated journals and photography to pioneer a form bent on demonstrating that art itself could be collected from the everyday clutter of modern life.

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RBritish artist John Stezaker studied at the Slade School of Art in 1973, and went on to produce work which challenged the predominance of Pop art. Stezaker’s collages are irreverent; his use of glamourous 1950s portraits, of dapper suited men and Hollywood stars, mashed together with postcards of landscapes and with other faces, has the effect of the uncanny. In 2012, Stezaker won the Deutsche Börse photography prize to a mixed reception, as a few critics questioned whether a conceptual artist – who deals with the destruction of photographs – could win a prestigious photography award, proving that collage as an art form continues to be nothing if not controversial.

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LMatthieu Bourel works in collage to create characters and scenes that we’ve never seen before. In his series titled Duplicity Serie, he fractures vintage photographs and arranges them in multiple ways over a single composition; pieces of the image are extracted and expanded, and someone’s face might appear several times in different iterations.

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u German artist Annegret Soltau constructs collage using photographs of her own face and body, stitched with black thread, confronting explicit issues in an imaginative manner.

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AL Marcelo Monreal’s work is going viral for his different take on inner beauty. His latest works cut open the portraits of celebrities in

Photoshop, super models and other faces of pop culture that are otherwise stagnant, to reveal beautiful blooms underneath. Monreal shares the same sense of bizarre humor that combines the morbid with abstracted glamour. As our society’s social pathos and obsession with celebrities grows, so do the blooms behind their faces in this ongoing series. Monreal says, “If the let loose from the rest of the body, which would be within? Well, to me, still I think that people have a little bit of beauty within them by more that this is saved and only revealed in rare moments

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Y In the early 1980's, English painter David Hockneybegan creating intricate photo collages that he called “joiners”. ... He then switched to photo lab processed 35mm photographs and created collages that took on a shape of their own, creating abstract representations of the scenes he had photographed.

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Task: • Pick up a camera and go to the studio set up, take a portrait photograph of

someone • Choose an artist who caught your eye and think of what aspect of the work you

liked best• Take the camera and photograph anything else you could potentially want to

include in your collage e.g. flowers, cars etc. • Upload your photos on to the PC and edit how you want in Photoshop (basic

editing skills will be shown by current 6th form/Jaz/Ellie). • Print off your image and begin cutting and sticing to make your collage in the style

of one of the artists above, or in your own style.

• Have fun and be creative!!