Photomontage

Hannah Höch - Cut with the Cake-Knife

Raoul Hausmann - ABCD

Continuing on from the 'Multiples' brief, I briefly studied the Dada's photomontages as a means of layering images and manipulating photographs. 

Below are some of my own examples, using images cut out from magazines and photocopied from children's books. 

Examples of Artists who use Projections

mummy by Alexander Ossia

ex(pose) 01 - Doron Hanoch

Jenny Holzer

Paul Citroen - Metropolis (1923)

Metropolis., 1923. Collage, 29-7/8 x 23-1/4 in. (76 x 59 cm). Prentenkabinet der Rijksunversiteit, Leiden, the Netherlands. c 1997 Paul Citroen/Licensed by VAGA, New York.

Citroen compiled images of buildings from magazines/postcards etc to make this collage and was quoted as saying "Afterwards I tried to explain why Metropolis became such a success. Maybe because most collages are somewhat arbitrary. But I planned that, if you would paste pictures of buildings on a large sheet, it should give an impression of the way many cities looked like. It was a view into the future. It was certainly not just a silly idea."

This piece is rumoured as being the inspiration for the film of the same name by Fritz Lang. It gave me the idea to make a collage of similar objects within actual films, for example all the birds in Hitchcock's 'Psycho', or buildings in 'Vertigo', etc. 

Christian Marclay

Christian Marclay - The Clock

Mini Documentary

Christian Marclay was my main inspiration for appropriating films. Being someone that has always been more influenced by filmmakers than more traditional artists, I was completely taken by Marclay's work. It includes familiar images and work by numerous people I am really inspired by, but at the same time gives these works a unique twist and new meaning or purpose. For example, in The Clock, a series of well known film clips become a fully functional clock. 


As well as collaging moving images, Marclay also appropriates well known album covers by rearranging them into often humorous combinations. For example: 

Appropriation Art - Film

Martin Arnold

Arnold's films are intensely cut sequences in which several seconds of found footage are taken and stretched out into much longer works. The figures on the screen flip back and forth between frames, as the motion is repeated, reversed, and numerous single frame cuts are made. His intent is to create, or possibly unearth, narratives concealed within the mundane films from which he samples. Above, Passage à l'acte(1993) uses several seconds of the film To Kill a Mockingbird to create a bizarre story of aggression and tension within a traditional American family.