photomontage

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For example, in the 1930s, we saw this put to effective use in the subversive anti-Nazi photomontage posters of the German resistance artist John Heartfield.

From Salon • Oct. 17, 2024

The photomontage “was intended to comment on the themes of freedom and oppression,” according to Azzam.

From Seattle Times • May 31, 2024

The exhibition “Living in Two Times” opens with a striking photomontage: A century-old black-and-white portrait of an Iranian woman conjures the past; overlaying it, a close-up of a bright, red-and-orange flower represents the present.

From Washington Post • Aug. 24, 2022

Klutsis, from rural Latvia, joined Unovis after the revolution, and would become Europe’s most fearless practitioner of photomontage, pasting pictures of soldiers, sportsmen and Stalin at wildly discordant scales and against high-contrast backgrounds.

From New York Times • Dec. 17, 2020

I cut in a photomontage of the hundreds of shots of prisoners in their cells that Barbara had published on the Bay Guardian's site the day we were released.

From Little Brother by Doctorow, Cory