The Man Who Was Beside Himself
This contrived double portait, using trick photography, shows the same young man twice in the same photo. The photo was created by combining two images neatly seamed down the center. Such double exposures were a popular form of photographic novelty produced by numerous photographers during the 1860s. Here the same young man is seen standing on both sides of a hanging drape. This image is one of the better examples of blending in which the seam between the two halves is nearly undetectable.
CDV photograph by F. M. Yeager, Reading, Pennsylvania; with 2 cent Playing Cards tax stamp.
The Man Who Was Beside Himself
This contrived double portait, using trick photography, shows the same young man twice in the same photo. The photo was created by combining two images neatly seamed down the center. Such double exposures were a popular form of photographic novelty produced by numerous photographers during the 1860s. Here the same young man is seen standing on both sides of a hanging drape. This image is one of the better examples of blending in which the seam between the two halves is nearly undetectable.
CDV photograph by F. M. Yeager, Reading, Pennsylvania; with 2 cent Playing Cards tax stamp.