Monday, February 22, 2010

Question - 435

Identify the (in)famous photograph.

Answer: This is the final and most famous photograph in a series of photographs of fairies taken by two girls in Cottingley around 1917. Many mystics including Sir Arthur Conan Doyle took the photos to be real and took it as proof of the existence of fairies. The girls maintained that the pictures weren't fake for the longest time. Kamal Rathi, Ajinkya, Karthik, Kaushik, Mekie, Raghu, Reeju, Hirak, nice try, Pavan, Manix and Prachi got it. Well done.

13 comments:

Kamal Rathi said...

Cottingley fairies

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cottingley_fairies

Unknown said...

Fifth photo of the Cottingley fairies.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cottingley_fairies

Unknown said...

Fairies and their Sunbath

Kaushik said...

Cottingley fairies. Two girls involved were photographed with fairies in their garden. Later when the girls were elderly they both admitted that the first few photos were fakes that they perpetrated with cardboard cut-outs held up with hat pins. However the last photo they both insisted were real and that they only did the hoax in the first place because they had seen fairies in their garden before.

mekie said...

The 5th Cottingley Fairies

Raghu said...

Cottingley Fairies

reeju said...

cottingley fairies

reeju said...

cottingley fairiesrd

Hirak said...

Cottingley Fairies that got Conan Doyle interested.

nice try said...

cottingley fairies .. reportedly the one image that one of the sisters continues to claim is genuine

Pavan said...

It's this fake picture supposedly showing pixies / fairies. I forget the context or who.

Anonymous said...

The fifth fake photo in the Cottingley Fairies series :-)

Prachi said...

One of the five photos of the Cottingley fairies.