PHOTOMONTAGE

Literally, a photomontage is made by using splicing techniques to assemble photographic images. Technically, photomontage should really be called photocollage, as collage means glueing in French and montage implies sequence, as in film. (True photomontage would thus exhibit two images from different times, as in superimpositions.) For me at least, the epitome of photomontage is Paul Citroen's (1896–1983) Metropolis, which is the name not for one image but several that he composed around...