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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.

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Correct.

Still a nice composition but it is @deceivinglyhistoryporn if not in the right context.

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This photo is so famous yet I never knew this fact about it. Thanks!

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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.

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