photomontage

noun

pho·​to·​mon·​tage ˌfō-tō-män-ˈtäzh How to pronounce photomontage (audio)
-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La Jetée, made the same year that Algeria gained independence from French colonial rule, might also be an inadvertent historical document of her own family. — 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

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1931, in the meaning defined above

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The first known use of photomontage was in 1931

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