NZPhotographer Issue 56, June 2022

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COLLAGE PIONEERS Before the recent invention of auto collage software, there were photographic pioneers of the photo collage. David Hockney is probably one of the bestknown people. He took lots of photos of the one subject, but from different angles and knitted them all together in a collage. What’s really interesting about his work is that his collages are not squares or rectangles. They are an organic growth of knitted images. I have imitated his style for this article (see photo on page 13) by taking around 30 images using the same settings (F5.6, 1/100s, ISO800, 55mm) for each shot but varying my light source and the subject’s pose. I selected 15 of the 30 images for the final collage. I shot from different angles by moving around my subject and then doing the same thing by popping pink cellophane over the softbox light in the studio. Hockey did not chop up his photos, but I did choose to crop my individual photos into various rectangular shapes. I then placed each image in what I felt was an organic merger to create an overall aesthetic based on Hockney. Some people do this with polaroids and glue them together. Either way, it’s not as neat or rigid as collaging in the traditional sense, but I like the look of something that emerges from the screen or page in a chaotic flow like this. Another pioneer of collage is John Baldessari. In the 1980s, he started a movement by putting colourful price stickers on photos. He stated he could not understand why painting was defined as art, but photography was defined as photography. He wanted to combine the two and explore a new genre. He photographed anything and everything that took his fancy and covered the subject’s faces with price stickers and later on with paint. This is an ideal place to start experimenting with printed or digital collage; either print your photo and replace a part of it with a coloured shape like Baldessari has or make a digital version in Photoshop. Open your chosen image in Photoshop or another image editor, select adjustments, desaturate, and then select the shape tool and draw a coloured shape over the desired spot. Below is one I tried in Baldessari’s style following that process. There is no reason to limit yourself to just popping coloured shapes on your photos. Some photographers are now starting to replace entire subjects with printed newspapers or colour them in with paint. I have also seen photographers print their photos, glue them to a cardboard backing and then sew patterns into the image. To my mind, this combines the best of what Beladessari was referring to. Traditional collage in art is to glue different images and materials together to form a picture and then add paint, dyes, or ink. Photography that is used as the base layer for a collage can create a powerful mixed media piece, especially if you can think of a way that The physical additions to your printed image can add emphasis to the conventions of Art. Hannah Hoch, John Stezaker, Jese Treece, and Annegret Soltau are all collage artists who used photography and other media to produce some incredible work, Google them and be inspired! My digital collage based on Baldessari’s style.
My take on Dave Hockney's collaging technique. CONCLUSION Keep in mind that you can be a photographer and an artist. Photo artistry is a common term now and mainly describes digitally produced photographic art. But you are also an artist if you are a photographer. You’re just using your camera to create art rather than your hands. But if you want to explore both, collage is your starting point. Happy collaging! NZPhotographer June 2022 13
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