Montage: Activity 4

Activity 4

• Find two examples of photomontages that are either from a commercial source or from a fine art background. Discuss in what context they have been produced and what techniques they share with political photomontages. 



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• What messages, if any, are communicated through these photomontages and how effective do you think they are? Consider different ways that each image could have been tackled by the artist and come up with an idea for ‘another in the series’. 

 Answers: Both of these examples are from a commercial source. They are trying to say come visit Paris or the end of the tunnel. It's persuading, you to do something. Techniques they share with political photomontages would be photo manipulation to make you think a certain way. As, far as messages go, with these photos, they show that they want you to do something. 

Montage: Activity 3

• Questons:
• As editors exercise their ever-increasing power over information control, what limits would you impose on them as to the extent to which they can manipulate the photographic image? 
• Devise a series of guidelines that will control the release of images that have been constructed for media use so that the public is aware as to the extent of the manipulation.

• Answer:
• Guidelines that will control the release of images would be:
• A policy that no photo manipulation will be allowed towards images that will be released.
• If possible contact sheets available for proof.
• No images focusing on opinion, if there are any, they will not be released. 
• Only true and factual images will be published and edited.

Montage: Activity 2

• Questions:
• Find two examples of political photomontages that are either from a historical or contemporary source. 
• Discuss in what context they have been produced and how effective you think they communicate their intended message. 
• Discuss the techniques that have been used to assemble the examples you have chosen and offer alternative ways that the artist could have put over the same message. 

Answers:

For both of these images, the intended message was loud and clear! Bush seems evil, which is an opinion because people love/hate this American  politician. This image might be effective just because it totally depends on what you politically believe. Bush is obviously not the Devil, but he also didn't really change or help the US. The techniques used for this image are masking, color changing, etc.
For the Hitler image, well the picture's intended message was that he was heartless, but there is no need for intended message because even without this image, he was still known for being heartless. The techniques used for the Hitler image would be fades, dissolves, split screens, double and triple exposures.  

Montage: Activity 1

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• Briefly discuss why you think painters of the Victorian period might have criticized these early photomontages and why the pictures were popular with the general public. (This technique of piecing together separate images to create one picture is again very popular with both artists and the media). 
• What two reasons can you think of for this revival of an old technique? 

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• Painters of the Victorian period might have critiqued early photomontages because during the Victorian era they were realist and used a lot of logic and photomontages were unrealistic or seemed fantasy. They became popular because they were creative and just fun to look at, as in different perspectives.
• Two reasons that I think that an old technique started to trend or it become revival was because of ads, TV, and social medias use these types of methods to get people to buy and consuming. Another reason would because of celebrities, presidential campaigns, and musicians use them to attract more people into joining their cause or become their fans, its about about gaining some type of publicity.