Ditlev Blunck, Danish
The Inaugural Attempt Was So Utterly Disappointing, It Would Be 150 Years Before Someone Took Another Group Selfie, 1846
Oil on canvas
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/// These four siblings, named Karchow, arranged
to appear in one oil, though estranged.
It’s to disprove the claim
that all four are the same,
but with wigs and fake beards rearranged.
/// Siblings often have similar faces,
so there’s really no logical basis
to assume that one man
had concocted a plan
to impersonate kin, changing places.
/// No Karchow has been charged with a crime—
stealing neither I.D. nor a dime.
Still there’s no knowing whether
four at once posed together,
or “each one” alone, one at a time.