Hands with Crystal Ball, Variation

1930
(French, 1905–1977)
Image: 23.9 x 17.7 cm (9 7/16 x 6 15/16 in.); Paper: 23.9 x 17.9 cm (9 7/16 x 7 1/16 in.)
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A photographer who produced experimental images that related to both modernism and Surrealism, Parry also had a commercial studio. He produced this image for a promotional campaign for André Maurois’s science fiction tale The Weigher of Souls (Le Peseur d’ames), in which a doctor’s experiments to find immortality reveal that life force is a gas that escapes the body at death. The photograph illustrates a sentence from the book about a ball that contained the spirits of two brothers captured in an invisible beam of light.
Hands with Crystal Ball, Variation

Hands with Crystal Ball, Variation

1930

Roger Parry

(French, 1905–1977)
France, 20th century

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