Photomontage

Photomontage of 16 photographs that have been manipulated digitally in Photoshop to create the illusion of a landscape that does not actually exist

The original background image

A photomontage is an image made of two or more photographs. It is made by cutting and joining the photographs together into an illusion of subject that is not real. A similar method is used today with digital photography, using image-editing software.^[1]

Photomontage can also mean the way of making a photomontage.

Photomontage Media

Photomontage of kiwifruit and lemons, digitally manipulated using GIMP
Robinson's Fading Away (1858)
Carnival, South End Exhibition Rink, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada, February 1899; The carefully prepared photomontage composite was a Notman specialty, each figure being photographed separately and then combined as a single image
A 1950 photomontage by Grete Stern
Example for an artificially created, totally misleading image: A race car exhibited at an airport (below) was cropped and combined on a computer with snowy mountains, leading to an image of a situation which never existed.
BMW M8 GTE endurance race car at Munich airport in 2021
Gustav Klutsis, design for a stand at the entrance to an exhibition, 1920
El Lissitzky, The Constructor, 1924