Meaning of double exposure | Babel Free

Definitions

1. A photograph produced by exposing film or some other photosensitive surface to focused light twice, usually by opening and closing a camera shutter two times, thereby generating a picture consisting of two superimposed images.
2. The process of producing such a photograph.

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“"The secret of all successful double-exposure photography may be expressed in one word—exactitude," said Georges Benoit, cameraman for Richard Walton Tully in The Masquerader.”

“A double⟳ exposure from the 1960's seems to make⟳ explicit some of the implications of Cunningham's own⟳ early plant⟳ studies. In it, ghostly hands appear⟳ on top of the image of an aloe plant⟳, with fingers and fronds jumbled together, all outstretched and reaching.”

“I've used double⟳ exposures to capture⟳ ghosts on film, to photograph two of me playing ping pong, and to capture⟳ a time-lapse shot of a birthday cake new and half-eaten in the same frame.”

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