Horrible Distorted Portraits Of Celebrities As You’ve Never Seen Them – Design You Trust

Horrible Distorted Portraits Of Celebrities As You’ve Never Seen Them

1950s, Queen Elizabeth II

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Photographs for “Distortions” series, a project that resulted in experimental portraits of celebrities and political figures.

As legend tells it, Arthur Fellig earned the nickname “Weegee” during his early career as a freelance press photographer in New York City. His apparent sixth sense for crime often led him to a scene well ahead of the police. Observers likened this sense, actually derived from tuning his radio to the police frequency, to the Ouija board, the popular fortune-telling game. Spelling it phonetically, Fellig took Weegee as his professional name.

In the late 1940s, Weegee began experimenting with photographic manipulation. His subjects were often film stars, world leaders both past and present, and figures of the art world. He even turned the camera upon himself.

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1960s, Andy Warhol

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April 17, 1961, Elizabeth Taylor

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1958, Brigitte Bardot

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Late 1950s, Mona Lisa

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ca.1965, Barbra Streisand

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ca. 1954, Marlon Brando

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1966, Mao Zedong

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c. 1960s, Judy Garland

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June 22, 1961, Fidel Castro

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c. 1960s, J. Edgar Hoover

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1950s, Audrey Hepburn

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circa 1960, Marilyn Monroe

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circa 1950, Weegee

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