photomontage

For example, in the 1930s, we saw this put to effective use in the subversive anti-Nazi photomontage posters of the German resistance artist John Heartfield.

The photomontage “was intended to comment on the themes of freedom and oppression,” according to Azzam.

The front gallery includes photomontages — Klein calls them “photoworks” — of female film stars and snippets of poetic text and Dada-style phrases.

The exhibition “Living in Two Times” opens with a striking photomontage: A century-old black-and-white portrait of an Iranian woman conjures the past; overlaying it, a close-up of a bright, red-and-orange flower represents the present.

Johnson’s long-running project, called “Movie Stars,” consisted of photomontages and collages made with cardboard, about three feet high, that featured faces of celebrities — or his signature absurd bunny.