Figure 1.--This is one of the montages called 'glue pictures' prepard by the authors and boys for their creation, 'The Five Cockerels'. |
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A children's book was published in Serbia with a difference (1933). It was an illustrated fantasy story which used phpotographs taken by children to illustrate the story. The title was 'The Exploits of the Five Cockerals'. The authors were Aleksandar Vuco and Dusan Matic. The two artists did not use traditionally drawings for the books Illustrations. They used photographs instead. This was the first time photo-montage had been used in the graphic design of a children’s book. The photography replaced the traditional fantastic drawings which illustrated fantasy stories in children's books at that time. Vuco wrote the poem, 'The Exploits of the Five Cockerels' and Dusan used photographs for the visual imagry to support the text. Dusan called this art form 'glue pictures'. He combined Photographs, newspaper and book clippings to make the illustrated pages. The photographs were taken by Vuco’s two sons: Djordje and Jovan. The children and adults worked out the plot for the photographs and then included clippings from other published sources. The photographs the children took later appeared on the pages of the story book.
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