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How did Ethel Kessler and Greg Berger use digital montage on the 1998 Frederick Law Olmsted postage stamp?
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Scene from the Egyptian Book of the Dead.
For the 1998 United States postage stamp commemorating Frederick Law Olmsted, designers Ethel Kessler and Greg Berger utilized digital montage to synthesize multiple visual elements into a single composition.1
By leveraging digital software, they combined the following components:
* A portrait of Olmsted painted by John Singer Sargent.1
* A photograph of Central Park.1
* A site plan.1
* Botanical art.1
This approach allowed the designers to layer these distinct images, creating a complex montage that serves as a rich, unified expression of Olmstedâs life and his contributions to landscape architecture.1