Montaging Ecstasy

The photomontage above is by Dali, and is called 'The Phenomenon of Ecstasy': having just come across it in L'Amour Fou - Surrealist Photography, it seems to me an instructive contrast with the images in IT's recent montage (link when cinestatic is back up), which uses similarly rum photography as the Dali one. The comparitive facial expressions seem to imply something historically depressing.