{"id":13953,"date":"2013-06-29T02:01:50","date_gmt":"2013-06-29T01:01:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/?p=13953"},"modified":"2013-06-29T02:01:50","modified_gmt":"2013-06-29T01:01:50","slug":"photographic-amusements-1905","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/2013\/06\/29\/photographic-amusements-1905\/","title":{"rendered":"Photographic Amusements, 1905"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"photos01.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/photos01.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Walter E. Woodbury&#8217;s <em>Photographic Amusements<\/em> (1905) is a guide for photographers to the many kinds of photographic manipulation. None of the effects would raise an eyebrow today but I was surprised to see what must be one of the earliest examples of a multi-person composite (see below), with the faces of twelve physicians combined to form a single portrait. Elsewhere some examples of &#8220;freak pictures&#8221; by a French photographer, M.R. Riccart, are presented as engravings which for me makes them more interesting. Browse Woodbury&#8217;s book <a href=\"http:\/\/archive.org\/stream\/photographicamus00woodiala#page\/n7\/mode\/2up\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a> or download it <a href=\"https:\/\/ia600204.us.archive.org\/16\/items\/photographicamus00woodiala\/\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"photos02.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/photos02.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"photos03.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/photos03.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"photos04.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/photos04.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"photos05.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/photos05.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"photos06.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/photos06.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"photos07.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/photos07.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"photos08.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/photos08.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"photos09.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/photos09.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"photos10.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/photos10.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"photos11.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/photos11.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Walter E. Woodbury&#8217;s Photographic Amusements (1905) is a guide for photographers to the many kinds of photographic manipulation. None of the effects would raise an eyebrow today but I was surprised to see what must be one of the earliest examples of a multi-person composite (see below), with the faces of twelve physicians combined to &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/2013\/06\/29\/photographic-amusements-1905\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Photographic Amusements, 1905&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[42,12],"tags":[4935,4934],"class_list":["post-13953","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","category-photography","tag-m-r-riccart","tag-walter-e-woodbury"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pq7rV-3D3","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13953","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13953"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13953\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13953"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13953"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13953"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}