{"id":3838,"date":"2013-01-23T01:00:01","date_gmt":"2013-01-23T06:00:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.herringbonebindery.com\/blog\/?p=3838"},"modified":"2025-09-15T16:29:52","modified_gmt":"2025-09-15T20:29:52","slug":"photographer-alma-haser","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.herringbonebindery.com\/blog\/2013\/01\/23\/photographer-alma-haser\/","title":{"rendered":"Photographer: Alma Haser"},"content":{"rendered":"

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I’m amazed as to how artists continually reinvent the Portrait. In the series Cosmic Surgery<\/em><\/a>, photographer\u00a0Alma Haser<\/a> captures confounding imagery. After the initial portrait is taken, the image is reprinted several times and folded into a complicated origami structure. This modular structure is then strategically placed over the face and the portrait is rephotographed leaving the subject feeling more alien than familiar.\u00a0<\/p>\n

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I’m amazed as to how artists continually reinvent the Portrait. In the series Cosmic Surgery, photographer\u00a0Alma Haser captures confounding imagery. After the initial portrait is taken, the image is reprinted several times and folded into a complicated origami structure. This modular structure is then strategically placed over the face and the portrait is rephotographed leaving […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[16,199],"tags":[608,37,125,1876],"class_list":["post-3838","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-artist","category-photography","tag-alma-haser","tag-art","tag-artist-2","tag-photography"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2Btis-ZU","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":7285,"url":"https:\/\/www.herringbonebindery.com\/blog\/2013\/12\/27\/best-of-2013\/","url_meta":{"origin":3838,"position":0},"title":"Best of 2013","author":"Erin Fletcher","date":"December 27, 2013","format":false,"excerpt":"The year of 2013 has been surprisingly busy, both in my business and my personal life. 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