Fotografika. Montuotos, spalvintos, įvairiomis technikomis atliktos nuotraukos

ENThe first part of the paper reviews photographs made by foreign photographers using montage, colouring and other techniques. It discusses the first montage made by William Henry Fox Talbot, one of the inventors of photography, in 1839. It then deals with artistic montages by Oscar Gustav Rejlander and Henry Peach Robinson, etc. The second part examines the colouring of the daguerreotypes and photographs by the first Vilnius photographers. Then the author notes the abundance o f panoramic pictures of the city consisting of several parts. A description of one of the first panoramas of Vilnius in Europe of the time, a photograph by Albert Swieykowski “Neris Embankement from the Castle Hill to the Green Bridge” is given. In addition, several other panoramas by the same author are mentioned. It is noted for the first time that several panoramas o f the city from different points of view can be composed from the photographs by Józef Czechowicz. Other interesting facts are presented, including one that montage was also used in the photographs by Aleksandras Jurašaitis with the aurox of the Belovezh Forest. Other Vilnius photographers also used various techniques to improve their photographs. Adomas Daukša, Stanislaw Filibert Fleury, Jan Bułhak, Władysław Zahorski and many others used montage or colouring in their photographs.Montage, coulouring and other photographic techniques were quite frequent during the period of independence in Lithuania. Most active in this area were Vytautas Augustinas, Balys Buračas, Petras Babickas, Juozas Daubaras, Povilas Karpavičius and others. The paper presents the facts of using montage by the Soviet propaganda in 1940 to produce the allegedly “documentary” photographs showing the rallies of the working people welcoming the People’s Parliament or supporting its decisions. Finally, the paper discusses coloured photograms made using montage, and photographs made after World War II using isohelium, pscudosolarization and other techniques.