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The Snapchat Monteur? New Platforms for Photomontage

‘It is important to note that a photomontage need not necessarily be a montage of photos’, the Constructivist writer Sergei Tretiakov declared in 1936. ‘No’, he clarified; ‘It can be photo and text, photo and colour, photo and drawing’. In 2019, ‘photo and smartphone’ might also appear in Tretiakov’s list. The volatile image, filtered through applications and shared across shifting platforms, is far from a new phenomenon. Networks of photographic dissemination and manipulation, traceable to the medium’s origins, have long precluded the possibility of a still photograph. As digital processes abstract cutting and pasting from scissors and glue, avant-garde photomontage offers a useful model with which to regard today’s unprecedented fluidity of images.