Recently learned this is a double exposure image. They took an exposure in an unlit room for the lightning, then put Tesla in there reading a book and took the second exposure.
Correct.
Still a nice composition but it is @deceivinglyhistoryporn if not in the right context.
This photo is so famous yet I never knew this fact about it. Thanks!
Someone probably claimed AI, and then someone else was forced to correct them based on Cunningham’s Law.
I didn’t know it was double exposure, too.
Pictures you can smell
Ozone?
Why wasn’t he instantly fried by some of those lightnings?
Realised this was answered further down
He wasn’t there with the arcs. It’s a double-exposure photo. Take a photo with him, then remove him and start the arcs, talking a very, very short exposure photo.
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