The Hydra-Headed Subject
date: label: date made
content: 1942
name: label: maker
content: Acme Photo
notes: label: Description (Brief)
content: double exposed photograph; studio portrait of a woman seated with her arms folded in front of her, wearing a dark v-neck dress and metal brooch pinned at lowest point of V; image is triple exposed with two alternate poses and expressions, both in profile
label: Description (Brief)
content: Press Print: 653924ro The Hydra-Headed Subject Absent-mindeness is the cause of one of the most irritating of photographic blunders--the double, or, in cases of extreme forgetfulness, triple, exposure. Beside being wasteful of film, this kind of error may result in discondrting and sometimes downright embarrassing pictures, such as shots of your mother-in-law sitting on the curb in front of a beer parlor or people sprouting heads hydra-like in all dirctions, like this poor girl. This sort of thing can be corrected by simply remembering to move your film to the next exposure immediately after taking each picture. (7/3/42) Credit line (ACMD) Acme Roto Service for Immediate Release
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
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content: Work and Industry: Photographic History
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content: Photography
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 2017.0281.0028
label: accession number
content: 2017.0281
label: catalog number
content: 2017.0281.0028
objectType: label: Object Name
content: photograph
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: paper (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 10 in x 8 in; 25.4 cm x 20.32 cm