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Photomontage

Before Photoshop…

I was surprised to learn that photo editing has been around as long as photos themselves had. It was interesting to see the humor and creativity from so long ago and how similar it is to ours today despite such limited technology. What we can do in a second now, back then took them lots of practice and time to master. They would have to manually cut out and paste images to others, or take a picture using the same film to get similar editing effects to today. The simple fact that we have an undo button makes what we have today ten times easier than what they had before. If they messed up, one or both of their images could be rendered completely useless. It’s wonderful and poetic that Jerry Uelsmann continues to use old techniques for photo editing instead of today’s technology. In general, I thought it was cool to understand the origins of photo editing and to be able to appreciate how technology has made this process easier.