The picture shows the image itself as absent

A few years ago, when I had the idea of taking a book title seriously and trying it out in practice, I made a serious mistake. I photographed the display of a camera that had just exposed a photo together with the subject in front of the lens, in front of the lenses. Sometimes I set up up to five cameras in a row. The mistake was that you could see on the display exactly what the subject was in front of the lens. Mistake. Now I'm repeating the series. I am now photographing myself in the middle of the subject. And then I photograph the display in display mode (with myself as a partial subject). Now the picture itself is actually absent. Because I am taking the exposed photo with myself in the foreground of the subject and I am no longer there because I am taking this very photo. With an analog camera. Scans may follow at some point.