This Used To Be The Future

By The Daily Dish

Otsuka

Chino Otsuka makes double portraits:

Images of Otsuka as an adult are craftily combined with snaps of the artist as a child, pinched from the family photo album. The resultant composite snapshots are both glaringly literal and astoundingly subtle musings on the contemporary relevance of the self-portrait.

More here.

(hat tip: Kottke)

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http://www.theatlantic.com/daily-dish/archive/2009/04/this-used-to-be-the-future/202958/