These photos, gathered from eBay and other sources by collector Robert E. Jackson,*offer a strange and humorous look at the ways 20th century artists have manipulated photos to decapitate their subjects or otherwise misplace or relocate their heads.
"Sometimes a photo exists simply to provide a smile or a laugh, without any hidden agenda or messages,” says Jackson, who in two decades of collecting photographic ephemera has amassed some 12,000 images.*"They might say more about the technical abilities of the photographer than the subjects themselves." Read more...
All of these create an illusion of something else — a narrative which is of the surreal and of spirits.
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07-17-2016, 04:02 AM
Bizarre found photo manipulations show a century of playful decapitations
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