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Family Combinations

William Wegman American

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Wegman’s early photographs and short videos often have the character of perceptual experiments carried out by a befuddled amateur scientist. In this poker-faced parody of Francis Galton’s method of composite portraiture, he presents every possible photographic doubling of his father, his mother, and himself.

Family Combinations, William Wegman (American, born 1943), Gelatin silver prints

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