These techniques entered the history of art with Picasso and Matisse. The techniques of joining, assembly, and assembly which followed form integral part of art visual or applied art. This series of artists shows that they largely use photography as material. These artists who marked their time with joining, of the mixed techniques, the assembly and assembly as in the various movements hobby-horse, new realistic or Pop Art. This site present of the recognized artists who use photography with talent such as for example Rauschenberg. With the assembly the frame makes party integral of the contemporary art by its capacity directly fix the light by chemistry. Photography became a central component of works: their material.

The artist photomontor “builds a new photographic unit using photographs given and chosen” according to Moholy-Nagy. For this last and Raoul Hausmann, John Heartfield and El lissitzky or Alexander Rodchenko the assembly photographs makes visible what is not representable. Others as max Ernst sees in this technique a “masterly irruption in the irrational one”. The photo assembly uses the natural intensity of the print by keeping qualities of the recording which is limited to a given moment. A photograph alone révéle very little of what makes trace on the pélicule while construction with photograph incarnates an idea. If the pictorialism like international movement, of 1888 in the middle of the Twenties) estimated that photography must gain its letters of nobility by imitating painting the New Vision incarnated by Moholy Nagy. This New Vision devaluates certain practice like the pictorialism and develops others and proclaims of them that photography is a material of production of artistic forms. In recent considerations foreshadow the alloy between art and photography that at the end of the twentieth century after profound historical events redefine the place and role of photography Features Topics artists Art photography