THE FIRST PHOTOMONTAGE Face of Christ superimposed on an oak leaf by Johann Carl Enslen, 1839.Public Domain (the Original belongs to the National Media Museum, UK). Johann Carl Enslen (1759-1848) was a German painter who, at 80, through the knowledge...

THE FIRST PHOTOMONTAGE

Face of Christ superimposed on an oak leaf by Johann Carl Enslen, 1839.Public Domain (the Original belongs to the National Media Museum, UK). 

Johann Carl Enslen (1759-1848) was a German painter who, at 80, through the knowledge of Talbot and probably, Wedgwood (the alleged inventor of the first photograph ever), approached photography experimenting with new photographic processes on paper and inventing photomontage. In 1839 he sent to Talbot the first photomontage depicting a design of the face of Christ onto a contact photograph of an oak leaf. This combination of design and photography is one of the first steps for the deliberately manipulated image, forerunner of Photoshop, in which the representation of nature and the projection of an image drawn by hand are juxtaposed, creating a photograph deliberately artistic as early as in 1839.

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Nov 16, 2016
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