2. INTRODUCTION TO
PHOTOMONTAGE
Collage is the art of reinvention a magical and tactile
process that invites you to collect, experiment, combine
and transform
A photomontage is a montage constructed from
photographic images.
Photomontage is often used as a means of expressing
political dissent.
Photomontage 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.
3. Aleksander
Rodchenko
In 1923 the Russian constructivist
Aleksander Rodchenko began experimenting
with photomontage as a way of creating
striking socially engaged imagery concerned
with the placement and movement of objects
in space.
4.
5. Hannah
Höch
Hannah Höch
Höch’s most famous work, effortlessly titled ‘Cut with the
Dada Kitchen Knife through the Last Weimar Beer-Belly
Cultural Epoch in Germany’, shows her ideals and
techniques in synthesis. A collage of newspaper
clippings, the work challenges the racist and sexist codes
upholding Weimar Germany. Throughout her career, Höch
would challenge the marginalised place of women in
twentieth century Germany. She drew together fashion
magazines, illustrated journals and photography to
pioneer a form bent on demonstrating that art itself could
be collected from the everyday clutter of modern life.
Cut with the Dada Kitchen Knife through the Last
Weimar Beer-Belly Cultural Epoch in Germany
7. Raoul
Hausmann
Raoul Hausmann was an Austrian artist and
writer. One of the key figures in Berlin Dada,
his experimental photographic collages,
sound poetry, and institutional critiques
would have a profound influence on the
European Avant-Garde in the aftermath of
World War I
9. Peter
Kennard
Peter Kennard; whose photomontages
explored issues such as economic inequality,
police brutality and the nuclear arms race
between the 1970s and the 1990s.
10. In her collages, Mickalene
Thomas portrays Black
women posed confidently
among patterns and
surfaces often found in the
home
Mickalene
Thomas
Mickalene Thomas din avec la main dans le mirror 2008
Can you create an
imaginary world for
yourself?
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13. - What images has he chosen
and how many images make
up the photomontage?
How he has manipulated the
original images (cutting,
rearranging, making strange
etc.)
- How has he arranged the
images?
- What is the
‘persona’ (personality) of the
character?
PERSONA
Franz Falckenhaus
14. - What images has he chosen
and how many images make
up the photomontage?
How he has manipulated the
original images (cutting,
rearranging, making strange
etc.)
- How has he arranged the
images?
- What is the
‘persona’ (personality) of the
character?
PERSONA
Franz Falckenhaus
16. TASK 1 INSPIRATION
Label the work of Franz Falckenhaus
highlighting/explaining the following:
- What images has he chosen and how many
images make up the photomontage?
- How he has manipulated the original images
(cutting, rearranging, making strange etc.)
- How has he arranged the images?
- What is the ‘persona’ (personality) of the
character?
TASK 2
PLAN YOUR IDEAS
Mind map your ‘persona’
- personality traits (mood, emotion)
- interests
How will you represent these visually
e.g. images, graphic shapes, backgrounds,
typography? IDEAS FOR PERSONA
PHOTOMONTAGE PORTRAIT
Interests
Football
Match ball
Green pitch
PERSONA
Exploring personality through Photomontage
Mood / personality
Happy Personality
Yellow, sun
17. DESIGN BREIF
TASK 3
Create a ‘persona’ photomontage using
a mash up of images.
Be inspired by someone real and pick
elements that represent them, or you
could invent someone entirely from
your imagination.
PERSONA
Exploring personality through Photomontage
18. UNSLPASH.COM
Free Stock Photo Website
- You can register and download free
images from www.unsplash.com.
- If you can’t access this website search for
large photo in Google
PERSONA
Exploring personality through Photomontage
FINDING IMAGE
- Images download from unsplash.com
- Digital Photomontage will be created using Photoshop
19. PERSONA
Exploring personality through Photomontage
PERSONA
Exploring personality through Photomontage
Annotate your Photomontage
TASK 4
PHOTOSHOP TOOLS
- Photoshop tools used and their function
VISUAL IMPACT OF DESIGN
- How would you rate the overall impact of the design?
- Describe he use of space, shape, line, texture, pattern, colour, tone etc
-The arrangement of diverse elements
EVALUATION
- How did Franz Falckenhaus inspire your design?
- How well did you create a persona through the selection and arrangement of images?
