revolutionary photography

This image of a hand and lake was apparently created by Pierre Boucher especially for the book by Marcel Natkin, Fascinating Fakes in Photography, 1939

the way boucher assembled this photography is he used 2 images of hands and layed them in a spot of the photo of the lake where the ripples are, to give a sense of drowning,despair and loneliness. some one slowly sinking into the deep dark shadows of a mysterious lake all alone. its so interesting to uncover the origin and ideas of the concepts of photoshop was created