Photomontage

by Dawn Ades

Book Overview

Manipulation of the photograph is as old as photography itself. It has embodied and enlivened political propaganda, satire, and commercial art and helped visualize the "brave new world" of the future... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0500202087
• ISBN13: 9780500202081
• Release Date: October 1986
• Publisher: Thames & Hudson
• Length: 176 Pages
• Weight: 0.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 5.9" x 8.3"

Customer Reviews

Dreams made real

The art of photomontage must be one of the best & most direct ways of rendering the surreal quality of dreams in tangible form. This fine volume is a perfect introduction to the history of the art, with examples from the dawn to photography to the present. For those wanting to understand & appreciate photomontage in general, to those hoping to their hand at it for the first time, you can't do better than these incredibly unreal (yet more-real-than-real) pages. Highly recommended, and urgently in need of reprinting!

A great introduction to Dada

The pictures are terrific- the author did a great job of chosing works of art that range from the ironic to the nightmarish.