Victorian Headless Portrait Photography

Victorian headless portraits

These 19th century novelty photographs feature a variety of beheaded Victorian ladies and gentlemen. The effect was achieved through multiple negatives and other pre-Photoshop trickery. From a period advertisement:

HEADLESS PHOTOGRAPHS!
Ladies and gentleman taken showing their heads floating in the air or in their laps.

Victorian headless portraits

Victorian headless portraits

via Boing Boing

photos by unknown

E.D.W. Lynch
E.D.W. Lynch

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