Take, for example, the work of 80-year-old master Robert Rauschenberg, who has been making people see the world in a new way since he debuted his "combines" (so called because they combine painting and collage) at the Leo Castelli gallery in the late 1950s.

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In low-light, HDR Backlight Adjustment takes a collage of images at various exposure levels and blends them into one perfectly exposed photo.

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The STYLUS SZ-16 iHS's blazing fast autofocus and HDR Backlight Adjustment combine to take a collage of images at various exposure levels and blend them into one perfectly exposed photo regardless of difficult lighting.

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Collage is now in use at the National Association of Securities Dealers, the U.S. Joint Forces Command and the U.S. Defense Contracts Management Agency.

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Their travails are part of a film that comes together slowly, at first, then ingeniously, and then quite astonishingly, into a sharp-eyed collage of a Europe bewildered by illegal immigration and beset by racism.

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