“History Re-Imaged”: A Brief Introduction to The Artist and the Exhibition Alan M. Richards y artwork is photomontage. It took me quite a while to actually figure out what to l my artwork since it wasn't pure photography, collage, painting, or drawing. tually, it was a combination of all those things. Over time, however, I gradually me to the realization that photomontage was a good descriptor. y method of creation is not simply about pasting things together as in a collage. her, it's about combining and refining many elements to form a picture that might serious, bizarre, surreal, or humorous. My goal is to have the viewers interpret the w image (re-image) based on their thoughts. y work often uses vintage images that have meaning to me on a personal and otional level. A good number of the images used in my works are derived from the fice of War Information (OWI), the Farm Services Administration (FSA), and from mmercial photographers during that time in and about the WWII years. The OWI s established to document life on the home front between 1941-1945. The FSA eceded the OWI.
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