- Find two examples of political photomontages that are either from a historical or contemporary source.
- Discuss in what context they have been produced and how effective you think they communicate their intended message.
- Discuss the techniques that have been used to assemble the examples you have chosen and offer alternative ways that the artist could have put over the same message.
My Response
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| Protect And Survive - Peter Kennard |
The picture above features a skeleton reading a magazine that says "Protect and Survive". The picture has an anti-war message, revealed mostly by replacing "Serve" with "Survive" from the phrase "Protect And Serve". It's not as impactful as depicting Hitler as a butcher, but it gets the artists' point across.
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| Explosive Minds - Peter Kennard |
Another picture featuring a skeleton, yay! This one is interesting because it features a picture of a nuke going off but a skeleton is featured in the foreground. The photographer has managed to blend the skeleton's skull and neck with the "mushroom cloud" of the nuke, which makes for an interesting image and a subtle yet loud message: "One explosion in one man's head that has been translated into reality, can be the death of us all"
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