"The double exposure was originally an accident – Wilson forgot to advance the film before releasing the shutter – but he noticed how the soft, dreamy look of the pictures countered stereotypes of Black men as threatening. Shot against a dark grey background, the men take introspective stances, their echoes suggesting movement, or a multiplicity of selves. The doubling also seemed to embody W.E.B. DuBois’s description of double-consciousness."