photomontage
(ˌfəʊtəʊmɒnˈtɑːʒ)
Also with hyphen.
[f. photo- 2 + montage.]
Montage (montage 2) using photographs or photographic negatives, a picture made by this method.
| 1931 Times Lit. Suppl. 25 June (Arts Suppl.) p. iv/3 ‘Photomontage’, the use of stripped negatives in futurist compositions to convey the effect of simultaneous ideas,..made its first success in the U.S.S.R. 1936 [see collage]. 1944 K. Vaughan in Penguin New Writing XXII. 153 Attempts at combining modern type faces with drawing and photomontage..have more often been made by certain branches of publicity. 1958 N. Marsh Singing in Shrouds (1959) ii. 19 They could see her reflection in the window-pane, like a photomontage richly floating across street lamps and the fa{cced}ades of darkened buildings. 1971 P. Gresswell Environment 231 A series of photo-montages should be prepared. 1972 Daily Tel. 8 Mar. 16 Not all the illustrations, which range from drawings to photomontage, come from people known primarily as artists. 1975 Times Lit. Suppl. 9 May 519/3 Ingeniously chosen illustrations and designs—notably the surrealistic photomontages of Benjamin Palencia. 1978 Nature 26 Jan. 359/1 (caption) Super⁓imposed photomontages from serial frontal sections of Procion yellow-stained horizontal cells contrasting sharply against the autofluorescing background tissue. |