Maurice tabard is a French photographer and famous for his photomontages. When he was 17 years old, he moved to USA where his dad worked in a silk mill. His interest for photography started after he studied Art, and he went on to study photography at the New York Institute of photography, where his teacher was the famous and remarkable photographer and sculptor Emil Brunel. After his studies he worked as a portrait photographer with the aim of becoming a fashion photographer. He moved back to Paris in 1928 and continued working as a portrait photographer in France and got more involved with both fashion and advertising. It was at that time he came acquainted with Man Ray who taught him solarization, multiple exposure, and photomontage. Inspired by surrealism and futurism he started using these methods.

He has used the techniques and executed them with great knowledge and you can see he knows exactly what he is doing. The awareness of what reaction and emotion he wants the observer to have is so clear and he succeeds most definitely. In my opinion, I think that Tabard tried to create a feeling of confusion. For example, he changed grass into water and rotated buildings so that they lay down. I get highly inspired by people who are different in their style and who go their own way regardless of any rule, or what other people would think. If everyone likes a particular photograph, is it special because of this? Tabard made unpredictable photographs, and he did them with great skill and technique. You can’t force creativity.