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Statement

I started doing collage 15 years ago mostly newspaper cut-outs pasted together plus crude rendered graphics from my Apple II computer. Now I use photographic imagery to to do collage, montage and colorized photos. I use pictures as "found objects", the camera to search for images and PhotoShop to do the "cut & paste".

Definitions

The French word ‘collage’ comes from the verb ‘coller’, and means "pasting, sticking, gluing" onto a surface. In French slang the word also means "illicite love affair". The past participle ‘collé’ refers to something "fake" or "pretended". Papier collé is a somewhat narrower term, it refers to the form of collage that uses paper, and often refers to the paper collages of the Cubists.

Terms associated with collage: assemblage and montage.

Assemblage refers in French and English to "the fitting together of parts and pieces", and has been applied to both two- and three dimensional forms.

Montage comes from the German verb ‘montieren’, which is similar in its meaning to the English word ‘to assemble’. The term ‘montage’ is used in relationship to film and photography as well.

Collage

Constructions in which bits of relatively flat materials, such as newspaper or cloth, are fixed to a support for symbolic or suggestive effect.

Composite Photographs

Photographic prints made when two or more separate images are optically combined by multiple exposures, sandwiching, or other means. The multiple negative images are printed onto the same sheet of photographic paper.

Photomontages

Photographic prints made by re-photographing a collage or montage of two or more photographic prints or pieces of photographic prints to which drawing, painting, or printing may have been added.

Montage

Composite pictures made by bringing together into a single composition a number of different parts of pictures and arranging these by superimposing one on another to form a blended whole. Pieces are physically rather than optically combined, but with more effort to conceal separations than in a collage.

Links

Collage Art

Found Art Collage

Schip's Montage Page

Montage in Film

Judy Miller

Global Collage

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