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What is term used when you chop up an image into small pieces, then
re-arrange them in a new way?

I believe the term mosaic is used when an image is made up from many
different independent images. Maybe it applies here also?

Anyone got the answer?

TIA!

montage (montäzh', Fr. môNtäzh') , the art and technique of motion-picture
editing in which contrasting shots or sequences are used to effect emotional
or intellectual responses. It was developed creatively after 1925 by the
Russian Sergei Eisenstein; since that time montage has become an
increasingly complex and inventive way of extending the imaginative
possibilities of film art. In still photography a composite picture, made by
combining several prints, or parts of prints, and then rephotographing them
as a whole, is often called a montage or a photomontage.

Credit to: The Columbia Electronic Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition

That should eliminate mosaic....

Bob S.


"Pete" <> wrote in message
news:...
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> What is term used when you chop up an image into small pieces, then
> re-arrange them in a new way?
>
> I believe the term mosaic is used when an image is made up from many
> different independent images. Maybe it applies here also?
>
> Anyone got the answer?
>
> TIA!

"Pete" <> wrote in message news:...

What is term used when you chop up an image into small pieces, then
re-arrange them in a new way?
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I believe it's called getting-a-divorce.
I've seen people do it many times.
It's kinda like modern day voodoo.
mark_

On Fri, 10 Sep 2004 21:15:56 GMT, BobS wrote:

> montage (montäzh', Fr. môNtäzh') ...
> In still photography a composite picture, made by
> combining several prints, or parts of prints, and then rephotographing them
> as a whole, is often called a montage or a photomontage.

Hmmm... not sure it's that easy.

If you google the term "photomontage", the first few links will take you to
sites obviously recognizing the common use of this term, where the pieces
are NOT obtained from a single original, but from several disparate images
or objects. See for example:

http://www.cutandpaste.info/

I don't see any evidence of one image chopped into piece then re-arranged.
OTOH, I didn't check all 161,000 hits.

Slacking off eh ?....

Bob S.

>
> http://www.cutandpaste.info/
>
> I don't see any evidence of one image chopped into piece then re-arranged.
> OTOH, I didn't check all 161,000 hits.

Pete <> writes:
> What is term used when you chop up an image into small pieces, then
> re-arrange them in a new way?

Are you sure there is a specific term for it? I must admit that I've
never seen any examples of this sort of technique.

If you can provide a link to a photograph where this technique is
used to good effect - it may ring some bells.

> I believe the term mosaic is used when an image is made up from many
> different independent images. Maybe it applies here also?

It is called a "photomosaic" if the independend images doesn't make
sense by themselves - and just contribute colour and tone to the
composite.

It is called a "photomontage" if the individual images that make up the
composite is recognizable as pictures.

But in both cases - the source of the composite is many different
pictures - not a single image.
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- gisle hannemyr [ gisle{at}hannemyr.no - http://folk.uio.no/gisle/ ]
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On Sun, 12 Sep 2004 09:49:07 +0200, Gisle Hannemyr
<gisle+> wrote:

>Pete <> writes:
>> What is term used when you chop up an image into small pieces, then
>> re-arrange them in a new way?
>
>Are you sure there is a specific term for it? I must admit that I've
>never seen any examples of this sort of technique.

Confetti?

wrote:

> On Sun, 12 Sep 2004 09:49:07 +0200, Gisle Hannemyr
> <gisle+> wrote:
>
>
>>Pete <> writes:
>>
>>>What is term used when you chop up an image into small pieces, then
>>>re-arrange them in a new way?
>>
>>Are you sure there is a specific term for it? I must admit that I've
>>never seen any examples of this sort of technique.
>
>
> Confetti?
>

Mosaic?

--
Ben Thomas
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given nor endorsed by it.

Mosaic

Jigsaw

Picasso
Rosita

Pete wrote:

> What is term used when you chop up an image into small pieces, then
> re-arrange them in a new way?

Jigsaw puzzle? No, that would be mixing them up then rearranging them
in the original way

> I believe the term mosaic is used when an image is made up from many
> different independent images. Maybe it applies here also?

I believe it would (btw, this is general art terminology, not
photo-specific).