
My original tumblr post was here. I reblogged the image from this tweet with the explanatory text “Tweeted by Retro Ninja @Nero222.” What the photographer is so shocked at I am uncertain, though I think it would be cool mad science if you had a camera that made the model from the image, rather than the other way round. As it is, this appears to be an example of Mexican pulp art.
There is a camera sort of like that in the EC story “The Dimension Translator” in Weird Fantasy #6. A picture taken with it can be turned into an exact clone of the person (or object).