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‘A Scottish adventurer, inventor, and photographer named Neville Colmore claimed to have constructed a device capable of “…parting the veil of Faery…”. The device, which he called the “Spectobarathrum”, produced beautiful photo graphic plates he called “fatagravures”, through a now lost process. The original “Spectobarathrum” along with all of the images he claimed to have made were believed destroyed in a fire.
‘The images were first made public in the 1890′s. They were presented in scientific lectures and were by and large ignored’
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Thank you to John Glenn
Very cool!
But if they were all “destroyed in a fire”, where did these come from?
Cool imagery. Lost process? Too bad.
Excellent photoshopping, with an imaginative concocted back-history – hence the lack of provenance for the non-existant photographic plates. There was no ‘Neville Colmore’ prior to Crowolf’s photoset upload.
Artistically though, they’re admirable!
Crowolf’s excellent Flickr photoset:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/crowolf/sets/72157594253902274/
Wonderful Belle Epoque pastiche, all right. I think I knew that French harpy of questionable provenance …
Am I the only one who thinks the last one resembles Batman?
This is a completely faked “fake collection” . There is obvious evidence of digital manipulation.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/crowolf/sets/72157594253902274/with/274705758/