1. Meaning, History, & The New Project
Photomontage
Meaning, History, & The New Project

2. what is photomontage?
Photomontage is a kind of collage that is composed primarily of photographs or fragments of photographs in order to direct the viewer's mind toward specific connections. 

3. Grete Stern May 9, 1904 – December 24, 1999
The German born artist Grete Stern is probably one of the most influential figures in photography in Argentina. Grete Stern studied graphic arts in Stuttgart in the 1920s, and afterwards she decided to move to Berlin in order to begin taking classes in newly established photography department at the Bauhaus school.

5. Bauhaus school
The Bauhaus was founded in 1919 in the city of Weimar by German architect Walter Gropius (1883–1969). Its core objective was a radical concept: to reimagine the material world to reflect the unity of all the arts. Gropius explained this vision for a union of art and design in the Proclamation of the Bauhaus (1919), which described a utopian craft guild combining architecture, sculpture, and painting into a single creative expression. Gropius developed a craft-based curriculum that would turn out artisans and designers capable of creating useful and beautiful objects appropriate to this new system of living.

6. Photography of Bauhaus

7. Paintings from Bauhaus Artists

8. Products from Bauhaus Artists

9. Grete Stern May 9, 1904 – December 24, 1999
Grete Stern was born in Germany to a Jewish family, and in Weimar Berlin, she and Ellen Auerbach had a photography studio called ringl + pit that specialized in advertising. She emigrated to Buenos Aires in From 1948 to 1950, Stern was hired by a womens’ magazine to “illustrate” the dreams that readers of the magazine (mostly Argentine housewives) submitted. She made 150 photomontages, called Suenos (dreams), that comprise perhaps the most brilliant and telling psychological document ever made of the inner lives of women of that era.

10. Grete stern’s photomontage

11. Grete Stern – Dream Nº 38, 1949
Grete Stern – Dream Nº 5, 1950

12. Grete Stern – Dream Nº 1, 1948
Grete Stern – photomontage

13. Grete Stern – photomontage

14. Grete Stern – photomontage, 1949
Grete Stern – Dream Nº 31, 1949

15. Grete Stern – photomontage
Grete Stern – Dream Nº 28, 1951

16. Photomontage by Others

17. JERRY UELSMANN

18. Man Ray
August 27, 1890 – November 18, 1976
Dora Maar, 1936

19. Dave McKean
The Major Arcana, 2000
Justice, 2000

20. David Hockney Pearblossom Highway 2, 1986
Place Furstenberg, Paris,1985

21. Still Life Blue Guitar, April 1982  
Mother 1, 1985

22. Scott Mutter
 (1944–2008) 
Escalator
Chandelier
Library

23. Time Travelers

24. ADRIAN BRANNAN
ADRIAN BRANNAN
Casa Batllo

25. Piccadilly Circus

26. Duane Michals
Rene Magritte

27. Edmund Teske
Shirley Berman and Madison Grammar School Demolition, Chicago, (1938)

28. El Lissitsky
"The Constructor (self-portrait)" (1924)

29. Jerry Uelsmann
Self Portrait

30. The project: Part 1
Part 1: Use new Photoshop Techniques with photos you already have to practice different techniques. This practice work is due Tuesday, February 10th. You’ll start this on Thursday.
Combining a minimum of 3 photos
Using Layers
Layer Masks
Merging Photos Together
Clone Tool
Deleting, Scaling, Distorting, etc.
No obvious editing should show

31. The Project: Part 2
Part 2: Choose a photomontage artist that you would like to mimic (style). Then brainstorm dreams and choose a dream & take new photographs that you will create a photomontage from. A minimum of 3 photos must be used in your final work. Photomontage photos for final project due no later than Tuesday, February 10th.
May be in color, black & white, or a combination
15 sketches of different dream/photo ideas with explanations due February 6th.
You will be given Wednesday (tomorrow) to work on the sketches during class. The sub will be collecting sketches on Wednesday so I can see your progress.

32. If at any point you have nothing to do…
There are a lot of fantastic photographers to learn about! I have a giant list of photographers and you’ll start at the top and will be writing a 1 page biography (handwritten only) every day that you do not have what you need to work on the CURRENT project. You’ll receive some participation points for doing this.
After 3 days of essays, you’re parents will be notified of your poor efforts.
3+ will result in a referral to administration.

33. TAKE PHOTOS FOR PHOTOGRAPHY CLASS. What a concept, right?
So, Basically…
TAKE PHOTOS FOR PHOTOGRAPHY CLASS. What a concept, right?