"As soon as photography was invented, some 187 years ago, images have been changed, altered, manipulated sometimes for bad reasons, sometimes for just entertainment. Different techniques, different motivations The exhibition brings together 50 historical images from the museum's collection. Originally published in various formats, including postcards, magazine covers and posters, the images feature a variety of manipulation techniques."
"Multiple exposure photography, a creative technique that became popular shortly after photography was invented, made it possible to show, for example, the same person twice in a single image, as different areas of a photographic plate were exposed in different steps to create a single image."
"Some were made for political reasons, or for advertising, but most of them were made for entertainment purposes and that must have been an extremely large market, says Rooseboom, just like memes, cat content and other viral content today."
The Rijksmuseum exhibition "Fake! Early Photo Collages and Photomontages" demonstrates that image manipulation is not a new phenomenon created by digital technology. Since photography's invention 187 years ago, images have been systematically altered using various techniques including multiple exposure photography and negative combination. The exhibition features 50 historical manipulated images from the museum's collection, originally distributed as postcards, magazine covers, and posters. These manipulations served diverse purposes: political messaging, advertising, and entertainment. Multiple exposure photography allowed photographers to capture the same subject multiple times in a single frame, while negative combination created surreal compositions. The exhibition curator notes that entertainment represented the largest market for manipulated images historically, paralleling contemporary digital content creation.
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