A process of creating collages of photographs to create a composite image. It was frequently used in movements such as Dadaism and Russian Constructivism and noted in the works of artists such as Hannah Höch, El Lissitzky, László Moholy-Nagy, Dora Maar and Richard Hamilton.
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