Montage: Activity 1

Activity 1: Blog Entry

• Briefly discuss why you think painters of the Victorian period might have criticized these early photomontages and why the pictures were popular with the general public. (This technique of piecing together separate images to create one picture is again very popular with both artists and the media). 
• What two reasons can you think of for this revival of an old technique? 

For us today montage is a type of photography that is used quite often, but that has not always been the case. In the Victorian Era when they started using this technique it was heavily critiqued. The reasons for this is probably and most likely due to the fact that everything in this era was about elegance and class and this strayed away from that and they were probably offended. Once it was taken away it was later brought back by the modern era. This could be for two reasons, we were making more different art forms that strayed away from reality such as movies and television and they wanted to include photography, or that someone saw that this was of post processing is art and should be celebrated rather than suppressed.