Category: photocomposite, photomanipulation, photocollage

Érotoscope, 1970

Raymond Abigeo and Jean-Claude Peretz :: Érotoscope. The photos show three differently clothed as well as partly unclothed female models and are divided into up to four longitudinal sections, so that the different body parts can be freely combined. Paris, Marie Concorde, 1970. | src Jeschke · Van Vliet

Ballerina, ca. 1931 (collage)

Willy Otto Zielke :: Ballerina, ca. 1931. Vintage gelatin silver print. Photocollage with partial handcolouring in Agfa Brovira paper. Unique work. Signed in pencil on the reverse. | src Grisebach

Hindu Goddess, 1950s

John Everard :: Indian Goddess (Déesse hindoue) female nude, 1950s. Original vintage full-bleed photogravure print on matte paper. | src vintageads on eBay

Day Dreaming, 1930s

Lionel Wendt :: Dreaming, 1933–34, photogravure, from Lionel Wendt’s Ceylon (London, Lincolns-Prager Publishers Ltd, 1950). | src British Art Studies
Lionel Wendt :: ‘Day-Dream’, Fonseka, Manel. Exhibition Catalogue Rediscovering Lionel Wendt, Lionel Wendt Memorial Fund, Colombo, 1994, p.4. | src Lionel Wendt Centre for the Arts
Another print, dated 1938, is titled ‘In Silent Places’ (bromide)

Wendt’s photomontages

Lionel Wendt :: Gay Abandon, ca. 1940, photogravure, from Lionel Wendt’s Ceylon (London, Lincolns-Prager Publishers Ltd, 1950) | src British Art Studies
Lionel Wendt :: Adventures in Space, ca. 1930s-1940s, photogravure, from Lionel Wendt’s Ceylon (London, Lincolns-Prager Publishers Ltd, 1950) | src British Art Studies

Wendt’s photomontage has been most conventionally and variously comprehended through its pastiche of influences and motifs such as De Chirico’s futurist arches, Magritte’s “Ceci n’est pas un oeuf,” Piero della Francesca’s Brera Madonna, Georges Bataille’s rumination on the story of the eye, and the recurrent vignette of a distant brig. Although he clearly held great admiration for those artistic circles he came into contact with in Europe, it seems a bit too summary merely to insert him within these narratives. (quoted from source)