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The art of photomontage disrupted the traditional photographic record, allowing artists to construct new, often politically charged, realities through cutting and pasting. Luminous-Lint tracks the development of montage from Victorian pastimes to its peak in Dadaist rebellion and modern digital collage.

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Contents

Introduction
1Understanding the terms
2Introduction to photomontage
3C.W. Applegreen creates a composite photograph
Composite photographs
4Composite and combination prints: Defined
5George N. Barnard: Composite photographs during the American Civil War (1861-1865)
Photomontage
6Photomontage - Defined
7Henry Hering - Alfred Reeves: Photograph. The Kings and Queens of England
8André Adolphe-Eugène Disdéri: Photomontages - Mosaïques
9Bradley & Rulofson: Photomontages
10Eugène de Tarade: Photographic fantasies
11Juan Pedro Chabalgoity: Photo-collages on cartes de visite (ca 1875)
12Unidentified photographer / collagist: Collaged portraits (1850s-1870s)
13William Notman: Photomontages
14Eli Lotar: Le Theatre Alfred Jarry et l'Hostilite Publique (1930)
15J. Pécsi: Photo und Publizität - Photo and Advertising (1930)
16Portugal 1934: Photomontage as propaganda
17El Lissitzky (Graphic design and photomontages): Album dedicated to the 15th anniversary of the creation of the RKKA - Russian: Workers' and Peasants' Red Army (1934)
18Marcel-G. Lefrancq: Les onzes Mois de la bonne Année (taken 1939-1945)
19Teresa Zarnower: Obrona Warszawy - The defense of Warsaw (1942-1945)
20Herbert Matter: Advertising
21Val Telberg: Photomontages
22Man Ray: Illustrations for Louis Aragon's novel "Aurélien" (1966 edition)
23Harold Feinstein: Photomontage
24Hugh van Es: Fleeing Americans during the fall of Saigon (29 April 1975)
25Alan Lennon: Photomontages
Collage
26Collage - Defined
27Decorated pages in nineteenth century photograph albums
28Lady Mary Georgiana Filmer: Decorated album pages
Techniques and processes
29Daguerreotypes: Multiple images
30Albumen prints: Photomontage
31Cartes de visite: Photomontage and photo collage
32Cabinet cards: Photomontage
33Gelatin silver prints: Photomontage
Spirit photography
34William H. Mumler: Spirit photography
35William Hope: Spirit photography and séances
36Richard Boursnell & J. Evans Sterling (London Spiritualists): Spirit photographs
37Cottingley Fairies
Reusing card photographs
38Bohumil Stepan: Satirical photocollages
39Contemporary artworks using card photographs
40The Whimsical Carte de Visite World of the Carte Horse Conspiracy and Archived Associates...
Assemblage
41Assemblage - Defined
Conclusions
42Conclusions to photomontage

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