Photomontage


 * Definition:** Photomontage is a kind of collage that is composed primarily of photographs or fragments of photographs in order to direct the viewer's mind toward specific connections. These photographs historically were glued on a surface.

Contemporary artists are pushing the boundaries of digital image editing to create extremely time-intensive compositions. The current trend is to create images that combine painting, theatre, illustration, and graphics in a seamless photographic whole.



  **Spirit photography** was first used by William H **Mumbler** in the 1860s.**Mumler** discovered the technique by accident, after he discovered a second person in a photograph he took of himself, which he found was actually a double exposure. Seeing there was a market for it, Mumler started working as a medium, taking people's pictures and doctoring the negatives to add lost loved ones into them (mostly using other photographs as basis). **Mumler's** fraud was discovered after he put identifiable living Boston residents in the photos as spirits.  

 