Headless Photographs

The 19th century is generally remembered as a time of science and technology, when the ideas of Charles Darwin and the telegraph of Samuel Morse changed the world forever. 

However Photographers in the late 1800s had a macabre sense of humor of trick pictures dating back to the Victorian Age. 

A number of Victorian photographers combined images from more than one negative to create illusions or novelty portraits. 

"Headless Photographs" featured men and women with "their heads floating in the air or in their laps". 

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