Photographers:
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Collage


 
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Contents

Introduction
1Collage - Defined
2Patent: Wm. A. Pratt, Improvement in Colouring Daguerreotype-Pictures (1846)
Decorated album pages
3Decorated pages in nineteenth century photograph albums
4Frances Carlhian: Album page showing the Shah of Persia - Nasir al-Din Shah
5Lady Mary Georgiana Filmer: Decorated album pages
6Princess Alexandra of Wales: Album of designs, incorporating photographs (ca 1866-1869)
7Emily Clare Harvey: The Harvey Album (1868)
Photographers
8Juan Pedro Chabalgoity: Photo-collages on cartes de visite (ca 1875)
9Unidentified photographer / collagist: Collaged portraits (1850s-1870s)
Spirit photography
10Cottingley Fairies
11William H. Mumler: Spirit photography
12William Hope: Spirit photography and séances
Modernism and collage
13Paul Citroen: Metropolis
14Erwin Blumenfeld: Collages
15Herbert Strässer: Photo collages
Collage and play
16Introduction to FotoFun
Appropriating card photographs
17Bohumil Stepan: Satirical photocollages
18The Whimsical Carte de Visite World of the Carte Horse Conspiracy and Archived Associates...
19Contemporary artworks using card photographs

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