Bob Gimlin

1 month ago | inkl.com | Yves Klein |Roger Patterson |Bob Gimlin |Luigi Leoni

It’s not hard to fathom why those in the darkroom were tempted to play tricks with the technology as soon as they learned that they could. The most obvious motive is the one that fuelled so much early photographic output: PR, or propaganda. It must have seemed only natural to superimpose Lincoln’s head on to the body of another man – an enslaver, as irony would have it – if that would yield a more heroic image of the president.