PhotomontageTechnique by which a composite photographic image is formed by combining images from separate photographic sources. The term was coined by Berlin Dadaists c. 1918 and was employed

by artists such as George Grosz, John Heartfield, Raoul Hausmann and Hannah Höch for images often composed from mass-produced sources such as newspapers and magazines.

George Grosz and John HeartfieldLeben und trieben im Universal-City, 12 Uhr 5 Mittags

John Heartfield

Hannah Höch,Und wenn du denkst, der

Mond geht unter(And When You Think the

Moon is Setting).(1921) 21 x 13.4 cm

The Author of the Book "Fourteen Letters of Christ" in His Home(1920). Cut-and-pasted gelatin silver prints, cut-and-pasted printed

paper, and ink on book pages

In this photomontage, Baader presents a photograph of a domestic space in which various Dada ephemera hangs on the wall at upper left. A figure has been cut out of the center of the photograph to reveal the image of Baader's dummy exhibited at the Berlin Dada Fair in 1920. This work is, in fact, a sophisticated self-portrait of Baader in his persona as the "Oberdada," a parody of a high-ranking military figure (ex. Oberleutnant) of the Dada "troupes." The figure cut out of the upper photograph can be identified as Baader himself, as his reflection is visible in the mirror at the right edge of the cutout.

Mess Mend ili Ianki v Petrograde, vol. 1-10Aleksandr Rodchenko (Russian, 1891–1956)

The Law of Series. (Das Gesetz der Serie)László Moholy-Nagy (American, born Hungary. 1895–

1946)

Photomontage Techniques – Combination Printing

The layering of negatives and then printing. 11 different negatives are used in this one.

Oscar Gustave Rejlander’s Two Ways of Life The first and most famous mid-Victorian photomontage

Kurt Schwitters

Hannah Höch, Cut with the Dada Kitchen Knife through the Last Weimar

Beer-Belly Cultural Epoch in Germany, 1919

Hannah Hoch used a the technique ‘photomontage’ to comment on society using the tabloids and newspapers as imagery.

Hannah HochPhotomontage Techniques –

Cutting photography and Pasting

(Dada)

Russian constructivist artist and propaganda

Photomontage Techniques – Cutting and Pasting

Alexander Rodchenko, Photomontage for Vladimir Mayakovsky’s “Conversations with a Tax Collector About Poetry”, 1926...

Rodchenko

Inspired by his work in illustration and commercial designs, Rodchenko turned to photography in 1924. He wanted to incorporate his own imagery into the photomontages that he had begun working on the previous year. From that point on, photomontage became one of his favored techniques. An ardent experimenter, Rodchenko regarded the camera as a highly flexible drawing instrument. His use of foreshortening and non-vertical camera angles became trademark techniques, and he advised aspiring photographers to "take several different photographs of an object, from different places and positions as though looking it over.

Romare Bearden, The Calabash, collage, 1970, Library of Congress

Romare Bearden used photographic techniques to print images onto paper and then collaged them together and sealed with a varnish.

David Hockney – Cubist style photomontage.

Entire photographs, taken from different angles montaged together to create an one image.