Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. The technique of making a picture by assembling pieces of photographs, often in combination with other types of graphic material.
- n. The composite picture produced by this technique.
Wiktionary
- n. photography A composite image combining two or more photographs
- n. photography The art of constructing such images
WordNet 3.0
- n. a montage that uses photographic images
Examples
“We believe that the photomontage is a satirical criticism of the political positions assumed by the Pope during his ecclesiastical career and that attorney Salvatore Vitello is criminalizing a publication based on outdated articles of the Penal Code, especially that this very Penal Code has recently had substantial changes to its writing.”
“Work by Kelly Gorman, an American mixed media artist who investigates issues of gender, race and cultural stereotype through visual disciplines such as photomontage and sculpture”
“The inspiration for this technique likely came from Grosz, who had worked with the pioneering photomontage artist John Heartfield in Berlin.”
“But it's important to gauge his careful distance from the tradition of photomontage – a term he avoids, in favour of "collage".”
The Guardian: Brian Dillon on John Stezaker at the Whitechapel Gallery
“The three huge portraits of him in different stages of his life that open the exhibition include a photomontage of his face set against a skull.”
The Guardian: Germany's first Hitler exhibition opens in nervous Berlin museum
“This procedure is a form of critique: the photomontage provides us a critical distance to reflect on what we had been prompted to desire, whether it was a luxury product, an ideal of feminine beauty, a racial superiority, or an entire way of life.”
The Huffington Post: Merrill Cole: WikiLeaks and David Wojnarowicz: A Perspective from Berlin
“This innovation reads to me as an Internet Age version of photomontage.”
The Huffington Post: Merrill Cole: WikiLeaks and David Wojnarowicz: A Perspective from Berlin
“In a 1978 photomontage titled "The Titanic," he upended Mies' Crown Hall at the College of Architecture at Illinois Institute, positioning it for a plunge into Lake Michigan, and all but declaring modernism dead.”
The Huffington Post: J. Michael Welton: Stanley Tigerman: The Retrospective
“This photomontage was made as a Christmas Card in 1943.”
“Hanna of the Birmingham Museum of Art where a smaller version of the show originated, "Spiral" features 22 works of painting, printmaking, collage and photomontage, most in black and white, by 10 of the 15 members of Spiral, a New York art collective active from 1963 to 1965.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘photomontage’.
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art & art historical
chiaroscuro, architrave, column, capital, corinthian, dorice, entablature, frieze, ionic, sketch, abecedarian, abstraction and 124 more...
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photo-, phot-
relating to light; relating to photography
photosensitive, photojournalist, photojournalism, photovoltaic, photography, photodynamics, photomontage
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Art Terms
mannerism, nonrepresentational, pointillism, serigraph, alla prima, trompe l'oeil, assemblage, arabesque, polychromatic, naive art, lumina, impasto and 104 more...
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bilby "Over decades, one of Heartfield’s photomontages was considered an accurate depiction of fascism: With the title 'The Meaning of the Hitler Salute: Millions Stand Behind Me' it shows Adolf Hitler raising his hand in salutation while a giant standing behind him, dressed in fine linen, is putting several 1,000 reichsmark notes into it. Hitler as a footman of the high finance – that was the communists’ established theory in the early 1930s when Heartfield created this picture for the weekly Arbeiter Illustrierte Zeitung (AIZ), in those days the organ of the political left with the highest circulation."
- Bernhard Schulz, An agitator with pointy scissors, german-times.com, July 2009. Aug 13, 2009