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Witness the accidental, the witty, and the visual pun. Photography has a long history of capturing the absurdity of life, proving that the camera can be as funny as it is serious.

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Contents

Introduction
1Introduction to humour
2Cartes de visite: Humour
3Stereocards: Humour
4An Optical Delusion and similar stereocards
Humorous illustrations and photography
5Humorous illustrations and photography
6Cuthbert Bede: Photographic Pleasures (1855)
7Interesting group posed for a Daguerreotype by a friend of the family / Interesting and valuable result (1855)
8Honoré Daumier: Prints and cartoons
9A.C. Kline: Jeff Davis "taking" Washington
10Harper's Bazaar: A Combination Picture (5 May 1888)
11Arthur Scheiner: At the Photographer (1890)
12Underwood & Underwood: Faith, Hope & Charity (1903)
Humour in vernacular photography
13Humour and vernacular photography
Photo caricatures
14Photo caricatures
Exaggeration photo postcards
15Exaggeration postcards
16William H. Martin: Exaggeration photo postcards
17Henry M. Beach: Exaggeration photo postcards
Humour on the street
18Robert Doisneau: Un regard oblique - variants
Political postcards in Britain
19Unemployment in Thatcher's Britain

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