
Has anyone come across the word ‘photocollage’? Please let us know and give us a reference or more than one if possible… I look forward to hearing from you! See: Contact Us We would love to have your comments. Translation Conjugation Vocabulary Learn Spanish. SpanishDict is the worlds most popular Spanish-English dictionary, translation, and learning website. You can find out more about each of these by clicking the link and reading the articles in the Photographic Glossary. See authoritative translations of Diptic in Spanish with example sentences and audio pronunciations. So what do you call each form? Did you realise there are different names for all the ways to present multiple images or pictures?Ī Triptych – Three pictures in one image.Ī Polyptych – Many pictures in one image.Ī Photomontage – many photographs in one image.Ī Photomosaic – very many photographs, or elements of photos, creating a new pattern or picture.Ī Composite – a single photograph/picture which is the amalgamation of multiple image elements which are blended together to make a complete, seamless image with one overall meaning, story or message.Ī Collage – nothing to do with photography an old technique using glue.

In fact there are many different ways of expressing yourself using multiple images. Think of the two images as frames in a camera. The use of multiple images in one picture is something that has been a part of art for centuries. In the following diptych, I have split one photo in two and made the parts of unequal proportion using the light on the jetty with its arched arms to define. A diptych conveys temporality by comparing the same subject at what appears to be different points in time.

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