“Fairy with Posy”, from “The Cottingley Fairies” series, 1920, The Cottingley Fairies appear in a series of five photographs taken by Elsie Wright and Frances Griffiths, two young cousins who lived...
The British Journal of Photography is reporting today that Geoffrey Crawley -- the world-renowned photographer who debunked the Cottingley Fairies hoax in
Erin Go Bragh! We are exploring Irish themes this month with books that celebrate St. Patrick’s Day, leprechauns and fairies, rainbows , the history of the four-leafed clover and of course .…
One Saturday afternoon in July 1917, Elsie Wright borrowed her father’s camera and set off with her cousin, returning half an hour later claiming to have photographed a group of fairies they played with in the wood. Elsie, aged 16, and her 9-year-old cousin Frances Griffiths, claimed the magical creatures lived in the woods around the…
One hundred years after the photographs were taken, why is one community still transfixed by the hoax?
