Panography

Panograph of Hyde Park in Sydney by Night

Panography, or Joiners, is a photographic technique in which one picture is assembled from several overlapping photographs. This can be done manually with prints or by using digital image editing software.

Panographs may resemble a wide-angle or panoramic view of a scene, similar in effect to segmented panoramic photography or image stitching. A panograph is distinct because the overlapping edges between adjacent pictures are not removed; the edge becomes part of the picture. Panography is thus a type of photomontage and a sub-set of collage.

Artist David Hockney is an early and important contributor to this technique. He called his panographs "joiners".

External links

• Images group on flickr about panography