These trick mirror photos were once thought to be the future of portraiture

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These trick mirror photos were once thought to be the future of portraiture

These trick mirror photos were once thought to be the future of portraiture

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...

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