Photo and Note

[ysabetwordsmith]

dialecticdreamer found a photo and created text for it, as part of the Frankenstein's Family series. Then I used that to make an image of the back. This is something that the village children find, shortly after the itinerant priest is encouraged to leave.

In our history, durable photos were not invented until 1815. The novel Frankenstein by Mary Shelley was published in 1818, and the later entries in the framing stories were dated 17--. Within that canon, and even more so in this series, science has advanced much farther than in our history. So a durable photo is plausible in this context, but it may not be made by the same process we think of as photography.

Comments

Thank you!

[ysabetwordsmith]

>> That's lovely and the note is wonderfully cryptic and intriguing. <<

I'm glad you liked it.

>> I'm curious about where the original photo came from, and how much editing was done to enhance it. <<

I don't know. dialecticdreamer found it. You could ask.