Inspiration or Trend?
Posted by photonovice on July 25th, 2008
I saw recently a picture of a woman cloned multiple times on Flickr Explore. It immediately reminded me to Rebekka’s works. Surprisingly the picture was not hers. The picture was made by Miss Aniela.
Both of these talented and hardworking photographer ladies are making their photos on their own usually without any help or assistance. Both of them make quite a few self portraits. Their work is artistic, sometimes mystic and slightly erotic. Both of them have a couple of pictures of themselves showing them in multiple instances. Both have a Flickr set with these multiplicity photos. Here is Rebbeka’s and here Miss Aniela’s.
Inspiration? Trend? Or something else?
Search for the word multiplicity on Flickr.
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Some time after publishing this post I tried to find it on Google. (Google is extremely fast with indexing new Web content these days. After 30 minutes or so I can find my things. Selfish? 
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I tried to search with these words: rebekka inspiration multiplicity and apart from finding my own article I found - to my surprise - Miss Aniela’s blog and specifically a post she wrote about Flickr photographers who inspired her. And yes, Rebekka was one of them.
So I got the answer. It’s inspiration.
July 27th, 2008 at 8:03 pm
Hey there - thanks for checking out my work and my blog entry. I just want to clarify that even though Rebekka is one of my inspirations, my first brush with multiplicity came in my early teenage years when the idea of cloning seemed to come to me from nowhere. As you are keen to observe where the idea of multiplicity comes from, I thought I would mention this. So in 2006 the work of Rebekka then inspired me to do some clone pics again..
July 28th, 2008 at 7:12 am
Hi Miss Aniela,
Thank you very much for your comment and the clarification. I really like your work and hope that you were not offended by my post.
One time I might explore multiplicity self portraits myself.
Best regards,
Tibor