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Photomontage

   A photomontage is more or less taking multiple pictures to either create a set of pictures that run together or taking them and making one much larger photo. Typically we overlay these photos or use them as basic building blocks for the larger picture. These pictures can be made to be meaningful or even just be made to be solely entertaining.

http://imgur.com/rLLCs3h

Here we see a comedic photomontage of Leonardo DiCaprio crying. The reason being it is made up of pictures of other people winning Oscars. When we look at these types of photomontages, we notice that the larger the number of pictures, the more clear the photo. Also, depending on the quality of the photos, we can zoom in and see the smaller pictures.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Photomontage

This photo, as you can see, has a woman cut out and pasted in to represent the bar of a lamp. This piece is called Articulos elrctricos para el hogar by Grete Stern. This an obvious photomontage. Many photomontages are illusions and/or abstract, showing things that do not actually exist, i.e. a real woman as a lamp pole.

http://www.wikilinks.fr/lart-du-photomontage-par-joachim-beyrowski/

(This link contains more photomontages)

This photo is of two children playing with chalk, however, it seems that the children are huge because they, along with their artwork, have been pasted into an overhead view of a street. This, just as Grete Stern's work above, is a blatant representation of a photomontage because of the overlaying images.