Going the `Full Montage'

The collage work of Hannah Hoch (1889-1978) is currently on display in the "I See" Gallery, at the Poland Cultural Center. Hoch was a pioneer of montage photography and a keen supporter of the Dada movement who was forced to bury her works in her backyard to escape Nazi persecution.

July 10, 2001

Photographic Collage-Montage: Machine Assembling and the Anti-Machine
By :Hannah Hoch and Ray Bachtiar
Venue:"I See" Gallery
Date:Until July 15, 2001

Thirty-two collages of small pictures are being shown at the "I See" Gallery, on Jalan Diponegoro in Jakarta. At first, these faded—up to 75 years—old prints appear to have little special about them. But given a closer look it soon becomes clear why Hannah Hoch's German prints are worth more t

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