Photomontage Guide, Meaning , Facts, Information and Description
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Many of the early examples of fine-art photomontage superimposed photographed elements on watercolours, a combination returned to by (e.g.) George Grosz, in about 1915. He was part of the Dada movement in Berlin which was instrumental in making montage into a modern art-form. The other major exponents were John Heartfield, Hannah Hoch, Max Ernst, Kurt Schwitters, Raoul Hausmann and Johannes Baader. Later it was also widely used by the Surrealists, most notably Ernst & Pierre Molinier. Surrealist Photomontage is currently being used by surrealist Keith Wigdor in 2004.
David Ridge has extended this idea by using photographs of painted, sculptured landscapes as part of the composition (1999/2000). Other methods for combining pictures are also called photomontage, such as combination printing (the printing from more than one negative on a single piece of printing paper - e.g. O. G. Rejlander, 1857) and front-projection and computer montage techniques.
Other influntial artists that used photomontage include Salvador Dali, and David Hockney.