Although André Kertész had experimented with visual distortion in his photographs as early as 1917, it was through a 1933 assignment for the French magazine Le Sourire that he created his most abstract and surreal work. Kertész had proposed posing female nudes in front of fun-house mirrors (which he had discovered a few years earlier at Luna Park in Paris), and over four weeks, he photographed the warped mirror reflections of two models, trying every possible permutation. The resulting imagery of twisted, deformed, and elongated bodies, many cropped and headless, ranges from the hallucinogenic to the humorous.