Back in 1949 - 1952 I was an art school struggler on the GI Bill. so my photography efforts were of little interest to my graphic arts professors I set up an enlarger in one bedroom (my wife was thrilled -- ha!) so I could earn extra cash shooting school activities and selling prints to fellow students at 50 cents per. Then an accident insurance investigator started giving me assignments and I had to print up invoices (!) bearing my name and address. This photo came from one of those jobs, involving a crane accident and a lawsuit. For my own amusement afterward, I sandwiched two negatives in the enlarger and this was the result. I soon produced a flock of manipulated images of all sorts as I experimented with print solarizaton, negative solarization, infra-red films, etc. The school office got a call one day from LIFE magazine advising them that I had won a prize in a contest for young photographers. Suddenly I was on the school's radar, and I was asked to put up a display of my works in the school's main hallway. The top professor was so impressed that he graciously asked me to donate the best stuff to the school, since I was going to graduate soon. After all, I could recreate them, right? Wrong! I became so busy at work that I never again had the time or set-up to tinker with solarization, double-exposures, etc.

What a shame Richard, as so often happens work gets in the way of our creativity. Good to see your work here, I can only imagine what your work would have looked like given the opportunity, I also used to play with solorization and sandwiching back in the darkroom days then after that tried manipulating my photos with Colorvir, a french company where you mixed different chemicals onto the finished print to change the colors around, but it was the chemicals creating the effect not me then when Digital came about and Photoshop Wow I was released and could start to fulfill my inner dreams, thank you for posting your work here always love seeing your work you have a very creative eye and mind which I admire no end

Back in 1949 - 1952 I was an art school struggler on the GI Bill. so my photography efforts were of little interest to my graphic arts professors I set up an enlarger in one bedroom (my wife was thrilled -- ha!) so I could earn extra cash shooting school activities and selling prints to fellow students at 50 cents per. Then an accident insurance investigator started giving me assignments and I had to print up invoices (!) bearing my name and address. This photo came from one of those jobs, involving a crane accident and a lawsuit. For my own amusement afterward, I sandwiched two negatives in the enlarger and this was the result. I soon produced a flock of manipulated images of all sorts as I experimented with print solarizaton, negative solarization, infra-red films, etc. The school office got a call one day from LIFE magazine advising them that I had won a prize in a contest for young photographers. Suddenly I was on the school's radar, and I was asked to put up a display of my works in the school's main hallway. The top professor was so impressed that he graciously asked me to donate the best stuff to the school, since I was going to graduate soon. After all, I could recreate them, right? Wrong! I became so busy at work that I never again had the time or set-up to tinker with solarization, double-exposures, etc.