- 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?
- I think painters of the Victorian period criticized early montages because they didn't like the idea of taking an old picture, cutting certain things (such as people) from the picture, then setting these new cut-outs on a new background and taking a picture of it. With that being said, I believe the general public liked these pictures because they looked nice, and couldn't tell that one picture was really composed of multiple pictures. In a nutshell (and my own words), the Victorian painters were probably being kinda snobbish and saying things like "This is atrocious, it's not art, it's not original. This is just a bunch of cut out pictures on the same piece of paper." while a normal person would have just said "This looks cool, I like it."
My Response
- The only two reasons I could think of as to why montages came back into style are: they were probably cheaper to make since you didn't have to pay for a set or models and that they were so different from what everyone else was taking pictures of. Basically montages allowed photographers to do with a camera what painters do with a brush, create a unique image with your imagination rather than by positioning people or waiting for something interesting to happen.
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