Photo collage
The photo collage is a special form of the classic collage , which consists of photographs or parts of photographs. In contrast to the photomontage , the individual images are in a different frame of reference, such as temporal or perspective.
Concepts for creating
There are several concepts for photo collages:
- Free arrangement of the pictures
- Fixed arrangement of the images in a grid
- An overall view composed of detailed images
The analog production of a photo collage takes place in that a carrier, for example a poster frame, is pasted with a number of analog prints.
A well-known artist whose work includes many photo collages is David Hockney .
If the source material consists of digital images , one has more extensive design options through the use of image processing programs . The creation of collages is possible with all image editing programs.
There are also a number of free, browser-based online tools on the Internet that allow you to create photo collages without downloading software. In particular, users of social media and bloggers use photo collages created online for their contributions and posts (see also Posting ). The online publication of photo collages is a special form of photo sharing .
Limits to manipulation
Photo collages differ from photo montages , photo manipulation or digital tampering in that the manipulations can be clearly recognized. The transitions are fluid; a clear limit cannot be defined. In the case of photo collages, the image manipulation is recognizable as such, regardless of the technical implementation, solely on the basis of the image statement, while in a photo montage the processing should be as unrecognizable as possible.
Application in art
One artist who uses the photo collage for works of art is David Hockney . He used them on the one hand as pure photography, but also as a template for painting.
From 1976 Hockney created photographic works with the portfolio Twenty Photographic Pictures and was successful with this art. Initially, Polaroid prints and then 35mm color prints were used in commercial processing. Hockney used Polaroid snapshots or photo lab prints of a single subject and arranged a patchwork in the sense of panography to get a composite image. He put his pictures together from over 100 Polaroid pictures to create a photo collage. Because these photos were taken from different perspectives and at slightly different times, the result is reminiscent of Cubist paintings. One of Hockney's main goals was to discuss how human vision works. Some of these works represent landscapes, others are portraits. Examples of this creative phase are landscapes such as Pearblossom Highway, Sun on the Pool or Place Fürstenberg, Paris, 7th, 8th, 9th August 1985 or portraits such as David Graves Pembroke Studios London Tuesday 27th April 1982, sisters Imogen and Hermiane Cornwall-Jones , Mother I, My Mother, Bolton Abbey or Kasmin.
Hockey later used photo collages of pictures, taken with a camera and 35 mm lens, as a template for making large-format paintings. Example:
history
Photo collages are likely to be as old as photography itself. The photo collage created a frame of reference. Today, except for artistic applications, it will largely be replaced by methods of digital image processing .
See also
literature
- Hans-Jürgen Tast (Ed.): Eve of Destruction. There is war outside, inside too. Schellerten 2005 (zmaK), ISBN 3-88842-029-6 .
- Clément Chéroux , Ute Eskildsen (eds.): Franked Fantastereien. The playfulness of photography in the medium of the postcard . Steidl, Göttingen 2007. ISBN 978-3-86521-653-3 .
- Elizabeth Siegel: Playing with Pictures. The Art of Victorian Photo Collage . The Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago 2009. ISBN 978-0-300-14114-6 .
Web links
Individual evidence
- ^ The David Hockney Foundation: A Bigger Grand Canyon. Retrieved January 19, 2020 .