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The Cottingley Fairies with Chelsey Weber-Smith

You're Wrong About

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The Importance of Photographing Fairies

It's a beautiful picture for sure. I think that Elsie as the photographer here you can see good composition at play. She was also an accomplished artist and did a lot of watercolors which as you can imagine might come into play later on in this story. There might be something about the fact that children are taking these photos that is like making the fairies photographable when an adult couldn't do that. Mm hmm. That makes sense. Right. This is the era of World War One. This is also the era of the spiritualist movement. And one of the arguments people make is that photography being this relatively new medium although it's been around for a long time

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