Saturday, 11 April 2009

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The "Cottingley Fairies", pictures taken by cousins Elsie Wright and Frances Griffiths (pictured together in the last photograph) in the early 1900s. There's deliberation over whether the photos are real or not - the photographers eventually admitted to all but the one of the fairies alone in a subath being faked, taken using cardborad cutouts. Whatever the story, I find the pictures fascinatingly beautiful. The vintage effect only makes them look all the more pretty.

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