photomontage - sort of

Discussion in 'Ephemera and Photographs' started by Ruth, Jun 19, 2017.

  1. Ruth

    Ruth Member

    Hi,
    I have two primitive photograph-postcards made in internment camps during the '40s. A title "happy new year" was added to the photograph by writing on the negative. That's not photomontage, since this technique involves cutting and pasting (or so I guess) parts of photographs, but it's still something done at the same stage. How would you call the technique?
     
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  2. Figtree3

    Figtree3 What would you do if you weren't afraid?

    Ruth, Could you post photos or scans of the postcards? It would help, since I (at least) can't envision what they look like.
     
  3. Ruth

    Ruth Member

    [It doesn't really matter, but the pictures say 'memories from Cyprus' and 'regards from Cyprus' (not 'happy new year').]

    491b-.jpg 491a-.jpg
     
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  4. Figtree3

    Figtree3 What would you do if you weren't afraid?

    Oh, are you asking whether there is a name for the technique of writing on the negative like this? I didn't understand that.

    I don't know whether there is a name for it. I haven't heard one, but maybe a professional photographer would know.
     
  5. Debora

    Debora Well-Known Member

    Dunno but just read it had to be done on emulsion side so one had to write backwards. (Could explain the rather "clumsy" lettering above.)

    Debora
     
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    Debora Well-Known Member

  7. Ruth

    Ruth Member

  8. Mill Cove Treasures

    Mill Cove Treasures Well-Known Member

    When I did printing in a darkroom in college, we would placed the letters onto the image projected onto the paper from the enlarger, not on the negative. When the negative was exposed onto the paper, the lettering blocked the image in that area and the letter shapes were "burned in".
     
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