Soviet montage theory is an approach to understanding and creating cinema that relies heavily upon editing. It is the principal contribution of Soviet film theorists to global cinema, and brought formalism to bear on film making. Soviet Cinema came to being from its painful post war experience. With a strict control by the Government on film making and import of films it was in 1924, Sergei Eisenstein and Lev Kuleshov with other major directors like Diziga Vertov formed a group called “Association of Revolutionary Cinema” (ARC) which eventually broke up but with the aftermath of the revolution, it brought forward a style called Montage that made the world pay attention to their cinema.
Artists that use Diptychs
- Laurence Aëgerter
Laurence Aëgerter is a french artist, resident of Amsterdam and Marseille. She works with photography, artist books and projects in public space. In her artistic research, Aëgerter often uses existing images or text material, creating alternatives of historical and contemporary cultural products
.This project is called photographic treatment which consists of black and white diptychs collected and edited by Laurence Aergerter.This project aims to improve the well being of dementia patients. The approach of this project is to help individuals by stimulating brain activity as you have to engage in the relation between the photos.
- Martine Noir
Martine Stig is an dutch artist, born in Nijmegen, Netherlands She also researches photography’s role in the perception of reality – how the clichés and tricks of the profession can be used to manipulate the experience of the viewer.
This project Noir is shot on the streets of Amsterdam and the approach of these images are to represent the white block in her work raiding many questions for the viewers, as all images are in the colour "noir" which is also the name of the book.
- Andy Warhol
Andy warhol was an American artist, director and producer who was a leading figure in the visual art movement known as pop art. His works explore the relationship between artistic expression, celebrity culture, and advertising that flourished by the 1960s, and span a variety of media, including painting, silkscreening, photography, film, and sculpture
Andy Warhol made the scale of this candid of Marilyn Diptych's because it demands our attention and announces the importance of the subject matter. Furthermore, the seemingly careless handling of the paint and its “allover composition”—the even distribution of form and color across the entire canvas, such that the viewer’s eyes wander without focusing on one spo
- Luke Fowler
-James Mollison
James Mollison is an author who was born in Kenya. His photographs have been featured widely in such publications as Colours, the New York Times Magazine, and Paris Review
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My own diptychs
This diptych was created from a task that required us to take pictures of something located at school. After taking one sigle image two people paired their images together creating a diptych. My picture (left) was silhouette figure this was taken at a very low angle so the sun could be direclty behind her to create a silhoeutte. I also had to turn down the exposure on my camera to help create the outline of the figure. The other picture was a was macro shot of a the fibres on a black and white carpet. The contast of the grey tones help the vertical lines stand out. Overall I think these photos together have a strong relation as It gives the appearane of a a girl standing on the floor. Simarlily they oth contain the repeated patterns of lines. Besides both images appear to be black and white however this is affected by the anles we've both taken our photos.