1897-1955 Photo-multigraphs

1890년대 초 뉴저지의 애틀랜틱시티의 James B. Shaw 에 의해 발명된 트릭미러 방식.

피사체를 4번 반사시키는 2개의 반사판 사이에 sitter를 위치시켜 완성한다.

1950년대 까지 유행하다 사라진 사진기법이다.

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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.” 

1897

Frederic and Francis Almy (twins). O.A. Taft Studio, Buffalo, New York.

IMAGE: COLLECTION OF CHRISTOPHER B. STEINER

It will be impossible to make our faces appear to the most advantage by a clever pose, for the latest innovation in photography, the multiphotograph, which is destined to become the photographic portrait of the future, will reveal all our defects and crudities.

SCIENTIFIC AMERICAN, OCT. 6, 1894

By the 1920s the photo-multigraph was a common novelty attraction at seaside, arcade, and boardwalk photo studios throughout America and Europe. As one author noted in 1931: “People on holiday will readily part with a dollar and a half or two dollars for a half dozen of these unusual five-in-one portraits.”

The practice had all but vanished by the 1950s. What is left are thousands of multi-photographs commissioned by portrait-sitters long gone whose images continue to serve as objects of reflection.

c. 1905

Dittrich Studio, Atlantic City, New Jersey.

IMAGE: COLLECTION OF CHRISTOPHER B. STEINER

c. 1915-1920

Marlborough Photo Shop, New York City.

IMAGE: COLLECTION OF CHRISTOPHER B. STEINER

c. 1910-1915

Myers-Cope Co., Atlantic City, New Jersey.

IMAGE: COLLECTION OF CHRISTOPHER B. STEINER

c. 1920s

Lillian Gallup, White Way Photo Studio, New York City.

IMAGE: COLLECTION OF CHRISTOPHER B. STEINER

1925

Marseilles, France.

IMAGE: COLLECTION OF CHRISTOPHER B. STEINER

c. 1920s

The Orpheum Photo Studio, Chicago, Illinois.

IMAGE: COLLECTION OF CHRISTOPHER B. STEINER

c. 1920s

Unidentified studio.

IMAGE: COLLECTION OF CHRISTOPHER B. STEINER

c. 1920s

White Way Photo Studio, New York City.

IMAGE: COLLECTION OF CHRISTOPHER B. STEINER

c. 1920s

Raymond Truex. White Way Photo Studio, New York City.

IMAGE: COLLECTION OF CHRISTOPHER B. STEINER

c. 1920s

White Way Photo Studio, New York City.

IMAGE: COLLECTION OF CHRISTOPHER B. STEINER

1930s

Unidentified studio.

IMAGE: COLLECTION OF CHRISTOPHER B. STEINER

c. 1930-1940s

Rosslyn Post Card Shop, Los Angeles, California.

IMAGE: COLLECTION OF CHRISTOPHER B. STEINER

c. 1940s

Photo Studio Alograff, Barcelona, Spain.

IMAGE: COLLECTION OF CHRISTOPHER B. STEINER

c. 1940s

G. Dobkins Studio, Atlantic City, New Jersey.

IMAGE: COLLECTION OF CHRISTOPHER B. STEINER

1947

G. Dobkins Studio, Atlantic City, New Jersey.

IMAGE: COLLECTION OF CHRISTOPHER B. STEINER

c. 1950s

Espelho Fotografico, Lisbon, Portugal.

IMAGE: COLLECTION OF CHRISTOPHER B. STEINER

1955

Eugene LeHuquet, Newark, New Jersey. Back of card reads: “A nice guy from every viewpoint.”

IMAGE: COLLECTION OF CHRISTOPHER B. STEINER