for proper 1st generation photo-montage...check out John Heartfield and the Berlin Dadaists. The FIRST photoshoppers, pre-dating the surrealists by a good couple years.
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Wed 2 Jul 2003, 22:03,
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Heartfield seems a bit crude and preachy, after all this time.A lot of the political stuff is at the level of the Bush=monkey images - and was evidently similarly ineffective.
But I agree that it was very innovative at the time.
(But I agree that it was very innovative at the time.
Cassidy : Vissi d'arte,
Wed 2 Jul 2003, 22:16,
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