Photomontage - Hannah Höch & Raoul Housman

In exploring specialist techniques and viewpoint I have been looking at photo-montage I have looked at some photo-montage artists like 

John Heartfield
Hannah Höch
Kurt Schwitters 
Raoul Housmann

My two favourite artists from this four are Hannah Höch and Raoul Hausmann because I liked there work the most.

Hannah Höch

The piece of work I looked at by Höch was;
"Cut with the Kitchen Knife through the Last Weimar Beer-Belly Cultural Epoch in Germany", 1919-1920.

I really like this piece. it is very busy, it looks very mechanically inspired because of all the buildings and all the gears  and bolts in it, I also think this photo-montage is advertising Dada and is against anti Dadaists because it is covered in the word Dada. I think it is against anti dadaists because in the top right corner there is paper cut outs which read die anti Dada.

Raoul Housmann

The piece of work I have been looking at by Housmann is this;

ABCD (Self-portrait) 1923–24

I really like this piece I like how he has put himself into the photo-montage and the different things round about him.

I decided to take this forward and this is the idea that I came up with 

I took the same sort of idea, I used photo shop to crop the picture of my head and change the colour to black and white. I then placed things about me round me, like that I really like bananas so I decided to put a banana in it I then changed the writing at the top to my second name, I basically tried to portray myself in a photo-montage.