Digital Photography Post Production: 2.Photo Montage and Enchanted Landscape

PHOTOMONTAGE

Mark Boellaard

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PHOTOMONTAGE
These images make no attempt to fool us. They make dreamlike combinations of images, that are cut out and placed over one another.

Hannah Hoch

John Heartfield

Cliff Evans

Herbert Beyer

Steven Meisel for a Balenciaga ad campaign.

Joan Fontcuberta

In the “Landscapes of Landscapes” series, Fontcuberta feeds the software fragments of pictures by Turner, Cézanne, Dalí, Stieglitz, Weston, and others, forcing the program to interpret a variety of landscape masterworks as “real.” The contours and tones of these painted and photographic landscapes are transformed into three-dimensional mountains, rivers, valleys, and clouds.

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While we cannot do anything quite like Joan Fontcuberta's in Photoshop, it is an interesting idea for the creation of Landscape imagery.

ENCHANTED LANDSCAPES
The images in this section are more subtly blended. We recognize that they are "odd" or not quite right, but we have to investigate to figure out how. Often times we can't fully decipher what has been done.