Cut and Paste a History of Photomontage
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The art of photomontage could be said to have started just after the First World War, but the manipulation of photographs already had a history going back to the invention of photography in the mid 19th century.
Direct contact printing of objects placed on photographic plates, double exposures and composite pictures made by darkroom masking were all popular in the victorian era. Victorians discovered the amusement to be had from postcards of the wrong head stuck on a different body or the creation of a strange or impossible creatures.
It was not until the revolutionary times following the 'Great War' that artists began to see the use of montage as a truly new art form. The center of this explosion of creativity was Berlin, where a group of artists calling themselves Dada was looking for new means of expression.
The history of the 'cut-up' started with the stil image and cinema, but since those days the field has expanded to include text, sound and digital montage using graphics programs like Photoshop.
All this started in the 1920s and is still carried on to present day.
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The art of photomontage could be said to have started just after the First World War, but the manipulation of photographs already had a history going back to the invention of photography in the mid 19th century.
Direct contact printing of objects placed on photographic plates, double exposures and composite pictures made by darkroom masking were all popular in the victorian era. Victorians discovered the amusement to be had from postcards of the wrong head stuck on a different body or the creation of a strange or impossible creatures.
It was not until the revolutionary times following the 'Great War' that artists began to see the use of montage as a truly new art form. The center of this explosion of creativity was Berlin, where a group of artists calling themselves Dada was looking for new means of expression.
The history of the 'cut-up' started with the stil image and cinema, but since those days the field has expanded to include text, sound and digital montage using graphics programs like Photoshop.
All this started in the 1920s and is still carried on to present day.
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