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Composite and combination prints


 
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Contents

Introduction
1Composite and combination prints: Defined
2Combination Printing (1870)
3C.W. Applegreen creates a composite photograph
4Making a composite portrait of a typical criminal (1879)
5Composite and combination prints: Portraits
Examples
6Gustave Le Gray: Combination prints
7George N. Barnard: Rebel Works in front of Atlanta
8Camille Silvy: River Scene (1858)
9William Notman: Photomontages
10Oscar Gustave Rejlander: Two Ways of Life
Contemporary criticism
11Contemporary criticism of Mr. Rejlander and Mr. Robinson (1859)

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