Juli Kearns (Idyllopus)
A Windy Day at Cadillac Ranch
Someone once asked me why I was a photographer. What, they wanted to know, attracted me to the medium. I replied without thinking, rather flippantly, that I photographed things because “I could not paint fast enough”. Flippant though it may have been, it was fairly accurate. And I know I am not alone.
Sometime around 1857 Henry Peach Robinson made the first photo montage and artists from Grosz (of the Dada movement), Hausmann, Rodchenko, Dali and Hockney have produced excellent works of art using photographs as ingredients rather than the art itself. While some people strive to capture pieces of life in still-frame, complete and independent, others try to depict pieces of life using other captured pieces of life. Often considered to be one of the more poetic and artistic forms that photography can take, photomontages – such as this one – are peeks into the psyche of the artist behind the camera, and very often stories unto themselves.
An interesting link: A History of Photo Montage
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