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Composite Imagery and the Origins of Photomontage, Part II: The . . . Photomontage has been a thoroughly modern technique of making pictures Most historians, critics and even the artists themselves have usually considered this type of imagery as spawned by early 20th-century modernism in art The customary argument has been that the kinds of pictures created during the period just prior to World War I issued in a new style of art and a new kind of pictorial
Composite Imagery and the Origins of Photomontage, Part I: The . . . The photomontage, from Oscar Gustave Rejlander to Jerry Uelsmann and Allan Dutton, is fundamentally a picture of pictures rather than a picture of something before the camera, and as such it begs a type of modernist thinking about images that occurs quite early
Heartfield’s Contempt - Artforum The photomontage Millions Are Behind Me (1932), for example, reveals the murky connections between high finance and the Nazis The motto is from a speech by Hitler, but the Führer was obviously referring to something other than what Heartfield is presenting
The Photomontages of José Renau - Artforum THE HISTORY OF ART has a certain arbitrariness—blanks, prejudices, omissions Ever since photography was invented critics have looked upon it with distrust, as if it were an inferior form of art As for photomontagists: some have been recognized—Hausmann, Heartfield, Höch, Berman, Szczuka, Klutzis—but the medium is far from complete acceptance as art Exhibitions of photomontage are
Hannah Höch - Artforum Hannah Höch was not a “good girl ” She was, as curator Juan Vicente Aliaga notes, a “total woman ” Staking her claim among the male Berlin Dada group with grotesque photomontage hybrids that critiqued stereotypical gender relations, Höch continued, until her death in 1978, to propose a heterogeneous approach to art
The Photomontages of Hannah Höch - Artforum If Höch wasn’t sufficiently consumed by Dada to become a full-fledged member of the club, perhaps it was because she feared being creatively hobbled by the brief but volatile movement What Höch did do was take Berlin Dada’s primary innovation—photomontage—and run with it for more than fifty years
Grete Stern - artforum. com The idea of using photomontage came from Stern, who had explored the same technique two decades and two countries earlier, when she and Ellen Auerbach founded the ringl+pit advertising studio
Sammy Baloji and Alice Seeley Harris - Artforum With this paradox of hue and setting, Baloji’s photomontage creates a startling juxtaposition between colonial-era visual culture and scenes of the devastation from the DRC’s ongoing, long-term military conflict, inviting comparisons between the country’s disparate and fraught histories over the past several decades
Hannah Höch Highlights among the more than one hundred collages, photomontages, watercolors, and woodcuts on display will include an impressive selection of her pathbreaking 1920s photomontage works, which exploit the medium’s capacity to produce comic effects and insist on the political significance of art outside of activist engagement, as well as a
GHOSTS IN THE MACHINE In great measure, her book presents a subaltern history of the school, giving particular attention to then-marginalized forms such as photography and photomontage—the media most often used to assert gender fluidity, parody postwar “armored” masculinity, and advance a feminist aesthetic