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The Cottingley Fairies appear in a series of five photographs taken by Elsie Wright — and Frances Griffiths — , two young cousins who lived in Cottingley , near Bradford in England. Author and prominent spiritualist Sir Arthur Conan Doyle learned of the photographs from the editor of the spiritualist publication Light. Accessibility links Skip to article Skip to navigation. Not in this case. Trivia About The Faerie Conspi In other projects Wikimedia Commons. One was published in in The Sphere newspaper, which was before the originals had been seen by anyone outside the girls' immediate family.
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The relatively recent novelty of photography fueled curiosity, according to the Wikipedia article about the photos. Doyle consulted experts at Kodak, which helped to popularize photography when it introduced the Brownie box camera in The photos were enhanced and transported around the United Kingdom by their admirers on lecture tours. They posed with the cardboard cutouts, producing the fairy effect. But even then Frances insisted that one of the photos—which shows only misty images of the fairy figures without the girls—was real.
I saw these fairies building up in the grasses and just aimed the camera and took a photograph. Elsie at times said the fairy figures were figments of her imagination that was able to photograph. The photographers themselves had a hard time letting go of the fairies, despite some discomfort that came with their faked photos fame.
In Elsie said that she and Frances were too embarrassed to admit the truth after fooling Doyle.
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