escargot
Disciple of Marduk
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- Aug 24, 2001
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It happened nearly 100 years ago. Back then Evans could use technology that looks simple to us but was beyond most people's understanding. He was in control of the photography at his events.Oh come on. The guy sat in the chair, got everyone to sing and make a noise in the dark, got up on the chair and jumped off it, taking his own picture while he did so.
20 years before, people had been taken in by William Hope's 'spirit photography'. Hope used double exposure methods to fake photos of sitters with deceased relations.
He fooled Sir Arthur Conan Doyle despite being repeatedly exposed by investigators who included Harry Price. The two men bickered over Hope for years.
Different times.