What is this kind of photo called? Collage?

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  1. wildrose

    wildrose Well-Known Member

    Five male members of the same family, not sure what it is called or how to market it? It is signed by the photographer? It is the Robinson family, they all died in the late 1800s but the picture is dated 1914. Thanks! I know NOTHING about photographs! photos.jpg photos1.jpg
     
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  2. daveydempsey

    daveydempsey Moderator Moderator

    Collage
     
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  3. Bakersgma

    Bakersgma Well-Known Member

    Looks like the individual images were (somehow) copied from earlier photo portraits, made relatively uniform in size and with the oval shadowing and then either printed on a single sheet to be mounted behind the mat or individually mounted on the backing in the correct spots. Collage sounds like the closest terminology to me, although @Figtree3 may know a different one.
     
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  4. yourturntoloveit

    yourturntoloveit Well-Known Member

    I "think" it (perhaps) could be/is called a "montage" (even if the photos are not "overlapping" inside the frame). ;)
     
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  5. moreotherstuff

    moreotherstuff Izorizent

    Maybe "composite" rather than "collage".
     
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  6. komokwa

    komokwa The Truth is out there...!

    Homage....?
     
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  7. Bakersgma

    Bakersgma Well-Known Member

    I knew there was a term that was used for our sorority ones, with individual portraits of each member, but couldn't think of it. Composite! Thanks, more other!
     
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  8. Figtree3

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

    All of them sound possible to me, but I'll go with this one.
     
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  9. moreotherstuff

    moreotherstuff Izorizent

    I couldn't think of it for the longest time either.
     
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  10. wildrose

    wildrose Well-Known Member

    thanks everyone!!
     
    wildrose, Aug 31, 2017
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