Photomontage

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. Photomontage is the process (and result) of making a composite photograph by cutting and joining a number of other photographs.A photomontage is a series of individual photographs, collectively of one subject, arranged together to create a single image. Sometimes a photomontage can move and include video. We are used to seeing single photos.The composite picture was sometimes photographed so that the final image is converted back into a seamless photographic print. A photomontage is a collage constructed from photographs.It was first used as a technique by the dadaists in 1915 in their protests against the First World War. It was later adopted by the surrealists who exploited the possibilities photomontage offered by using free association to bring together widely disparate images, to reflect the workings of the unconscious mind. Collage made from photographs, or parts of photographs, is called photomontage. Photomontage is the process (and result) of making a composite photograph by cutting and joining a number of other photographs. The composite picture was sometimes photographed so that the final image is converted back into a seamless photographic print.