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07-01-2017, 09:43 PM
These trick mirror photos were once thought to be the future of portraiture
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1897
Frederic and Francis Almy (twins). O.A. Taft Studio, Buffalo, New York.
Image: collection of Christopher B. Steiner
These photographs, collected by Connecticut College art history and anthropology professor Christopher B. Steiner, were created using a photo-multigraph or “trick mirror” technique
Invented by James B. Shaw in Atlantic City, New Jersey during the early 1890s, a photo-multigraph is created by placing the sitter between two mirrors which are angled to produce four reflections of the subject.
By exposing a person’s face from every angle, the photo-multigraph was touted as a system which would enable “us to see ourselves as others see us.”* Read more... (http://mashable.com/2017/07/01/photo-multigraphs/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial)
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1897
Frederic and Francis Almy (twins). O.A. Taft Studio, Buffalo, New York.
Image: collection of Christopher B. Steiner
These photographs, collected by Connecticut College art history and anthropology professor Christopher B. Steiner, were created using a photo-multigraph or “trick mirror” technique
Invented by James B. Shaw in Atlantic City, New Jersey during the early 1890s, a photo-multigraph is created by placing the sitter between two mirrors which are angled to produce four reflections of the subject.
By exposing a person’s face from every angle, the photo-multigraph was touted as a system which would enable “us to see ourselves as others see us.”* Read more... (http://mashable.com/2017/07/01/photo-multigraphs/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial)
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