Double Exposure "Masters"

[Dave S.]

Can anyone recommend specific photographers who have been especially successful, known for, and/or executed exceptionally well the double exposure technique? I am curious about this process and would like to learn more about the "masters" of this method of photography. Names, websites, example photos, etc. welcome.

Thank you!

Dave

[lynnb]

Harry Callahan and Laszlo Moholy-Nagy are both famous and both did interesting double exposure work.

More recent: try Ian Hornack http://www.ianhornak.com/index_ian_hornak-27.html, not entirely to my taste.

Some of my favourite double exposures are by Ernst Haas, see 'Spring' and 'Summer'. With both photos he shot the first exposure slightly OOF and overexposed, then the second exposure focused and correctly exposed. The result is a very dreamy look. You can find these photos in his book The Creation.

And don't forget Muybridge..

[dave lackey]

Our very own Photony Texas, of course!!!

[Sejanus.Aelianus]

Harry Callahan and Laszlo Moholy-Nagy are both famous

Possibly, for a given value of "famous"; I've never heard of them, has anyone else?

[Dave S.]

Thanks for all of your responses. I'll check them out!

FYI: I came across Andrei Chezhin's work via another RFF thread and found it interesting. In addition, I like the work RFF member El Horla did in this thread.

[John Lawrence]

Originally Posted by dave lackey

Our very own Photony Texas, of course!!!

+1.

John

[gho]

Originally Posted by dave lackey

Our very own Photony Texas, of course!!!

+1. Photony Texas instantly came to mind.

[punctum]

Hi
You should look at John Blakemore's work his still life and landscape work using multi and double exposure. You will have to put up with just google,
I studied with him @ the university of Derby and the prints he showed !!!!!!!!!
He has book "John Blakemore's Black and White Photography Workshop" which is some of what we learned.
Regards
Sven

[ddutchison]

I'd add Duane Michals. He occasionally used double exposures in his sequences, but always to very great emotional effect.

Originally Posted by Sejanus.Aelianus

...I've never heard of them, has anyone else?

Yeah, lots of us have - Nagy would be in the "pioneer of photography" class - He's known to anyone in the world who has studied art (not just photography) in the last 75 years. Callahan is not quite so famous, but his work is in the Eastman House Collection, so he's also pretty well known.

[robklurfield]

+++1 on Photony!

Originally Posted by gho

+1. Photony Texas instantly came to mind.

[gns]

Try looking up Edmund Teske, a Los Angeles based photographer who experimented a lot with things like sabatier effect ("solarization") and multiple images. I don't know if he did in-camera multiple exposures or combination printing (or if the difference matters to you).

Gary

[Sejanus.Aelianus]

Yeah, lots of us have

Perhaps we could take a poll, find out who qualifies as "famous" to the RFF readership? I think it would be even more interesting if we cross referenced by age and country of residence.

[gns]

Originally Posted by Sejanus.Aelianus

Perhaps we could take a poll, find out who qualifies as "famous" to the RFF readership? I think it would be even more interesting if we cross referenced by age and country of residence.

It would be pretty difficult to do any research into the history of photography and not have come across Moholy-Nagy. Ditto for Harry Callahan (not the Clint Eastwood character).

Gary

[photony texas]

Thanks fellow RFF-ers for mentioning my name. Master/Famous ha I'm not sure, but I love the challenge of Double Exposures and use them as my main vehicle for artistic expression.
Always open to sharing information on technique/equipment etc and in the past have sent many a long email to those on RFF with specific questions.

[Dave S.]

Thanks again for everyone's helpful information. I must admit I felt a little giddy that photony texas actually replied to this post . I'll send you a pm Mr. Texas.

On a side note: my double exposure experiments have been limited to my Ricoh FF90 Super point & shoot camera. This camera allows for manual ASA adjustment and leaves the tail end of the film leader un-spooled upon rewind - making it easy to shoot the same roll twice and accurately line up frames so they don't overlap (just be sure to count and match the sprocket holes when loading the film each time).