Opinions please - Surrealistic Self-Portraits - from 50 years ago

[dfoo]

I loved the shot of the vase. Awesome!

[Barry S]

Those are great--he looks like a card.

[BobNewYork]

Wonderful series. You must be proud of him - I would be.

Bob H

[Steve Smith]

I would have liked to meet the man.

Me too. I loved the one in the glass jug.


Steve.

[SuzanneR]

Agreed... what a sense of humor! What a treasure for you!!

[johnnywalker]

Great pictures. He looks like he'd be a lot of fun.

[tiberiustibz]

Now that's some stuff I'll have to try. I've been looking to work on innovative enlarging techniques like the ones used here, like the one when he was playling himself in a game of chess.

The coolest technique I saw involved printing a face and after repositioning the negative burning a single eye into the forehead.

[Andy K]

Wonderful work. I most enjoyed the shot with the coins. Seeing the old Imperial coinage really took me back!

Love your grandfather's imagination and sense of humour.

[Chazzy]

Very interesting. I assume that this was a case of cutting and pasting and photographing the montage?

[jouhar]

Very interesting. I assume that this was a case of cutting and pasting and photographing the montage?

I am not sure which ones you mean - all of the ones that show more than one instance of my grandfather have been done with multiple exposures on the same negative, I think.

Regards
Kelvin