Through the Cheval Glass: Reproduction in the Photographs of Clementina Hawarden
A fascinating essay and photos. Follow the link to the article at The Public Domain Review.
Soon after Clementina Hawarden began taking photographs in the mid-19th century, her eye caught on doubles, reflections, her daughters glimpsed in the mirror. Stassa Edwards examines the role that reproduction photographic, biological plays in this oeuvre, and searches for the only person not captured clearly: Hawarden herself ...
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Photograph by Clementina Hawarden of her daughter, also named Clementina, taken in her home studio at 5 Princes Gardens in South Kensington, London, ca. 186263. The Victoria & Albert Museums description of this photograph conjectures that possibly there is a slight suggestion of a hand in the act of removing and/or replacing the lens cap to begin and end the exposure."