MEDIUM

Double Exposure / Multiple Exposure

Two realities occupying the same frame. The body merged with landscape, texture, or another body.

Historical Context

Multiple exposure has been used since the earliest days of photography to create composite realities. In figurative work it allows the body to become landscape, the interior to merge with the exterior, desire to become visible.

Defining Characteristics

  • Two images merged in one frame
  • Body merged with environment
  • Transparency and layering
  • Dreamlike spatial logic
  • Identity in flux

Reference Artists

  • Jerry Uelsmann
  • Man Ray
  • Cristina Otero
  • Brooke Shaden

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