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Self-Portrait Transformation
Louis Ducos Du Hauron French
Not on view
Du Hauron is best known as the inventor of several early color photography processes, but these bizarre images reveal a more whimsical aspect of his research on optics. In the late 1880s du Hauron discovered that photographing a subject through two screens pierced with perpendicular slits would distort the image projected on the negative like a fun-house mirror. In the early twentieth century, variations on the process were used to produce political caricatures.
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