• Donjuanme
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      2 months ago

      I was not trying to say it was not authentic,

      Just that if put forward as a modern creation there would be "artifacts"that would lead someone to accuse it of being slop.

      I have no idea how he pulled it off.

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        2 months ago

        photo editing been a thing for a long time and Horst was one of the modern OGs of wacky gimmick photography (Halsmann and Weegee are the other two. Oddly enough, surrealist OG Man Ray considerably toned it down by then)