Unit 11: Photomontages

Activity 1

Fading Away by Henry Peach-Robinson

I think Victorian painters might have criticized these early photomontages because the photographers, such as Henry Peach-Robinson and Oscar Gustave Rejlander, were altering reality. They took multiple negative and combined them together to create a new picture allowing the public to view it as it is. Some of the photographs that they took were beautiful and were destroyed to create these photomontages. 

I think there are two main reasons for this revival of the old technique. One reason would be because of computer programs such as Adobe Photoshop, making it easier and quicker to make these photomontages. Another reason would be because of public opinion. The public has grown to accept and demand an alternate reality. With this demand, more photographers are leaning towards this type of work.