Photo 2 - Assignment 1: More progress (Dark Room)

 

Dodging and burning tools cut out to match the text piece and the collage piece of photomontage

finished print. I had to do some extra burning on the right hand side of the collage area because of a light reflection on the original collage that the film picked up; it is still visible but much better than previous attempts without dodging. 

The next step of my photomontage is to add some colour onto this print!

Hannah Höch

 

Hannah Höch, Cut With the Kitchen Knife Dada Through the Last Weimar Beer Belly Cultural Epoch of Germany, mixed media collage, 114 x 90 cm, 1919-1920

Hannah Höch, Untitled, 48 x 32 cm, collage, from the series “From an Ethnographic Museum”, 1930

Hannah Höch (1889-1978) was a German artist known primarily for her collages and photomontages. Höch was trained as an applied artist dealing with pattern making in the fashion industry, of which she began to use these developed skills to explore abstraction, which led later to her photomontages and collages. She is best known for her dada work from around the 20s and 30s, which largely are a reaction to the current state of Germany. Höch was an anti-fascist sociopolitical commentator, whose work, besides exploring politics and the industrial, also made a number of works focused on the ‘neue frau’ (new woman) in which she looked at gender and social roles for women in the ‘new’ and ‘old’ Weimar republic.

Photo 2 - Assignment 1: Faking it: Photomontage (part 1)

 For my photo montage I wanted to work with a chapter description page found in a time magazine by creating a collage based off of the chapter titles that’s both amusing and critical. I will then use this collage along with the ‘chapter title page’ to create a photomontage.

Prep work (creating the collage)