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Man in a Bottle Albumen silver print from glass negative, 35.6 x 27.9 cm, by John C. Higgins, c. 1888 The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York |
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| A man sits in a bottle, a photographic illusion created through studio manipulation and careful staging. From a period when photography played with scale, containment, and spectacle, it embraced visual trickery to amuse and sometimes unsettle the viewer. |
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