Khan Academy: Stepanova, the Results of the First Five Year Plan

Have you ever wondered what came before Photoshop? After the First World War, artists in Germany and the Soviet Union began to experiment with photomontage, the process of making a composite image by juxtaposing or mounting two or more photographs in order to give the illusion of a single image.Varvara Stepanova used photomontage as a form of propaganda to promote Stalin's First Five-Year Plan. View examples and read about this form of art/propaganda in this essay.