photomontage
noun
pho·to·mon·tage
ˌfō-tō-män-ˈtäzh 
-mōⁿ(n)-
: montage using photographic images
also
: a picture made by photomontage
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Filmmaker Cabrera belatedly discovers in her latest feature that Chris Marker’s 1962 sci-fi photomontage La Jetée, made the same year that Algeria gained independence from French colonial rule, might also be an inadvertent historical document of her own family.
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Samantha Bergeson, IndieWire, 10 Feb. 2025
This photomontage shows sample tubes shortly after they were deposited onto the surface by NASA’s Perseverance Mars rover in late 2022 and early 2023.
—Stephen Clark, Ars Technica, 16 Apr. 2024
Between its covers, more treasures await: This copy of Breakfast at Tiffany’s includes rarely seen photomontages created by David Attie, a protegé of Alexey Brodovitch (the renowned art director of Harper’s Bazaar from 1934 to 1958), in 1956.
—Lilah Ramzi, Vogue, 4 Apr. 2024
In addition, the book comes with a portfolio of the full set of photomontages by David Attie.
—Demetrius Simms, Robb Report, 12 Mar. 2024
The cover of the final issue, dated April 1945, after his liberation, is a photomontage of two people climbing out of a hatch.
—Nina Siegal, New York Times, 18 Dec. 2023
Magnolia trees and other local symbols appear in her compositions on paper that mix watercolors and photomontage.
—Siddhartha Mitter, New York Times, 22 Sep. 2023
Mitchell-Innes & Nash included the photomontages in a show of Rosler’s feminist works from the 1960s, ’70s and present day that opened late last year, just months after the overturning of Roe v. Wade.
—Alice Newell-Hanson Sean Donnola, New York Times, 9 Aug. 2023
The earliest self-portrait, from 1930, is a photomontage collaboration between Claude Cahun and Marcel Moore.
—Mark Feeney, BostonGlobe.com, 7 June 2023
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Samantha Bergeson, IndieWire, 10 Feb. 2025
This photomontage shows sample tubes shortly after they were deposited onto the surface by NASA’s Perseverance Mars rover in late 2022 and early 2023.
—Stephen Clark, Ars Technica, 16 Apr. 2024
Between its covers, more treasures await: This copy of Breakfast at Tiffany’s includes rarely seen photomontages created by David Attie, a protegé of Alexey Brodovitch (the renowned art director of Harper’s Bazaar from 1934 to 1958), in 1956.
—Lilah Ramzi, Vogue, 4 Apr. 2024
In addition, the book comes with a portfolio of the full set of photomontages by David Attie.
—Demetrius Simms, Robb Report, 12 Mar. 2024
The cover of the final issue, dated April 1945, after his liberation, is a photomontage of two people climbing out of a hatch.
—Nina Siegal, New York Times, 18 Dec. 2023
Magnolia trees and other local symbols appear in her compositions on paper that mix watercolors and photomontage.
—Siddhartha Mitter, New York Times, 22 Sep. 2023
Mitchell-Innes & Nash included the photomontages in a show of Rosler’s feminist works from the 1960s, ’70s and present day that opened late last year, just months after the overturning of Roe v. Wade.
—Alice Newell-Hanson Sean Donnola, New York Times, 9 Aug. 2023
The earliest self-portrait, from 1930, is a photomontage collaboration between Claude Cahun and Marcel Moore.
—Mark Feeney, BostonGlobe.com, 7 June 2023
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“Photomontage.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/photomontage. Accessed 14 Mar. 2025.
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