Word: composograph
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Strange Race. Gauvreau also hit on a way to invent pictures that he called "composographs." He boosted circulation by 100,000 with a composograph showing Rudolph Valentino's arrival in heaven. The faked picture came most sensationally into its own when it illustrated the bedroom horseplay of eccentric Millionaire Edward ("Daddy") Browning and his young bride "Peaches," whose litigious romance was a Graphic bonanza. The couple was shown in composographs that sometimes contained balloon dialogue even for Daddy's pet goose...
...When Graphic Editor Emile Gauvreau lamented that the judge had barred photographers from the sensational Kip Rhinelander annulment case (1925), an artist made a "composograph" -a combination of several photographs-to "show" the courtroom scene with Mrs. Rhinelander stripped to the waist. The Graphic's circulation jumped 100,000 copies...