The two more recently published photographs are very similar to “Alice and the Fairies,” and the same general…
- Date of account
- Published 1923
- Source
- The Case Against Spirit Photographs
- Reference
- The Case Against Spirit Photographs · selected passage 65
- Rights
- public_domain
- Language
- English
- Record updated
- 2026-08-24
Record summary
The two more recently published photographs are very similar to “Alice and the Fairies,” and the same general criticisms apply
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Source passage
Source text · mention onlyThe two more recently published photographs are very similar to “Alice and the Fairies,” and the same general criticisms apply. “_Alice and the Leaping Fairy_” again shows the fairy illuminated from a point behind the camera, whereas Alice is illuminated from the right side. (Note that her right cheek, facing the camera, is in shadow.) Fairy shows no movement-blurring, and comparison with instantaneous photographs of jumpers shows the attitude to be most unusual. On tilting the photograph a little to the left, the fairy appears to have been posed kneeling on the left knee, the support being afterwards cut away, and the cut-out figure applied to the enlargement of Alice, in a slightly different vertical axis.
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Modern context
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