ABSTRACT
The use of two or more originals, perhaps also including written text, to make a combined image. A montaged image may be imaginative, artistic, comic or deliberately satirical in a decade or two of its invention, photography was used to chronicle wars, to survey remote regions of the world and to make scientific observations. Historians and critics have frequently drawn attention to the difficulty of defining documentary that cannot be recognised as possessing a unique style, method or body of techniques. Documentary and photojournalism are intimately linked, and many practitioners of straight photography are interchangeably described as either photojournalists or documentary photographers. One major factor in the development of photography around the world was the desire to record wars. Even today most people’s understanding of the nature of war comes from photographic images rather than from direct experience or literary accounts.
