The dreamer
Author: Manuel Alvarez Bravo.
Máxico, 1931 .
This picture was originally titled Sleeper for the exhibition "Documentary & Anti-Graphic" 1935 in New York.
was initially priced at $ 30 for later lowered to 25.
Case (and photos, of course) became famous, and both critics and the (somewhat limited) supporters cast their arguments in the columns of newspapers.
research, the article and the subsequent debate on this issue ended up resulting in a book written by Conan Doyle, where he covered the back in the preface to the book warning the reader that:
[...] " This story is not an allegation of specialist convinced of its authenticity, but a mere collection of facts whose interpretation may accept or reject the reader" [...]
But, indeed, himself I was absolutely convinced it was all true, and it shows in each page.
According to Doyle, all evidence pointed to the veracity of the facts: The girls and some family members were interviewed first by Gardner and then by Doyle himself, concluding that they were honest people and educated.
Surprisingly, one of the things that were most observers suspect was a fairy appeared crowned with a small hat to parisien. " Too modern and too French for a British fairy lovers.
No fue hasta muchos años más tarde, cuando ya el tema estaba bastante olvidado, que unas ancianas Frances y Elsie confesaron que todo había sido una broma y que, cuando llegaron serios hombres adultos a investigar el asunto, se asustaron y no tuvieron más remedio que continuar con el engaño.