photomontage: Herbert Bayer and Linder Sterling

As a continuation and development into my research on photo montage. I came across two artists/photographers who deal with realism and social construction particularly Sterling.


Linder Sterling


background information: 


again going along with the idea that can sexual fetishism sell any product? and how much we are told to look like certain people-hegemonic ideas of how we should look-magazine cut outs

Picture above: clever and witty-also a way of showing how sexual fetishism can sell any product-similar to the ad buster campaigns that I looked at before Christmas. 

Particularly like this image-like the idea of using magazine cut outs in photographs as a way of showing how women should conform to social norms and the 'celebrity or model' way of looking and posing. This is something I would like to experiment with in the studio either this week or next.


Herbert Layer: 

 Bayer's Self Portrait in Mirror. The use of photomontage to fragment the body makes it seem almost fake and plastic, like a doll. Bayer was one of the modernists who used the process of collage and photomontage to deconstruct the apparent "realism" of photography.

 I like the juxtaposition of all the elements, the strange arrangement presents us with a dream like image that conveys a sense of loneliness and alienation in an urban landscape. I think the eyes looking straight into the camera are quite haunting. 


I would like to experiment further with his way of photomontage and relate it to proposal. Something i need to do in the next up and coming weeks.