Photomontage’s lineage is normally traced to Dada, which, by 1921, was no longer around, although its spirit of irreverence and caprice lingered on considerably. There is ample evidence from the history of photography that photomontage existed well before its purported invention around 1918–1920.

Sep 1, 1978 · Numerous arguments and rivalries concern who actually was the first to have “discovered” this mode of expression, but the principal point is that photomontage is generally said to have begun only around the time of the First World War. 4. Earlier examples of photomontage have been usually brushed aside on grounds of eccentricity.

The poster and the photomontage became Renau’s privileged means of expression. He liked their multiplication and diffusion possibilities: an “original” no longer exists. His black and white photomontages were reproduced in Orto (1932–34), a review of which he was the artistic director: Legal Abortion , North-American Landscape , The Way ...

But as Dawn Ades points out in her new, informative book Photomontage: Photography as Propaganda, Heartfield and the Dadaists were less interested in the technical process than in the “idea, the operation that transforms the meaning of the original photograph.” 7 Heartfield himself said the following: “A photograph can, by the addition of ...

The process of photomontage was the next step out of the dead-end of “pure” plastic research. In 1920 Rodchenko realized his first photomontages, planned to illustrate Ivan Aksionov’s book of poetry entitled Gerkulessovy Stolby (Hercules’ Pillars). Aside from the very formal orientation of the works—their rigid geometrization being ...

Through photomontage, Höch probed broader societal issues, especially those related to the shifting position of modern women and the catastrophic effects of World War I on the bodies of veterans returning from the front. At the core of the exhibition, two galleries dedicated to the body brought these aspects of her work to light.

We are looking at an untitled photomontage, the frontispiece of Aveux non avenus (Unavowed confessions), a book written and illustrated in 1930 by Claude Cahun. 1 Aveux non avenus is an autobiographical collection of poems, aphoristic philosophical fragments, and recollected dreams, all reflections on the identity and androgynous sexuality of ...

What Höch did do was take Berlin Dada’s primary innovation—photomontage—and run with it for more than fifty years. It’s one thing to subvert mass-media images to horribly funny or ironic effect—as she did in Hochfinanz (High finance, 1923), or Bürgerliches Brautpaar (Streit) (Bourgeois wedding couple [quarrel], 1919); it’s quite ...

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.

Dec 27, 2022 · Martha Rosler, Cosmic Kitchen I, ca. 1969–72, photomontage. I was making feminist sculpture at about the same time as the photomontages. She Sees in Herself a New Woman Every Day, 1976, which is in the show, is a grid of color photos, arranged on the floor, of mostly banal or outdated shoes, shot from above. Typically, when you see photos of ...