St. Louis Public Library: Pranks And Illusions In The Philibert Photo Collection

St. Louis MO

30 April, 2022

12:11 PM

Description

Press release from the St. Louis Public Library: April 28, 2022 days of painted portraiture Edmund Philibert Photo Collection Edmund Philibert was a carpenter who grew up in St. Louis, never married, and relocated later in life to New Mexico with his sister Florence. Much of what we know of his life comes from the detailed diary he kept from his twenty-eight visits to the World's Fair in St. Louis (published here), and a handful of the photographs in this collection document those visits. There are a few puzzling photographs in this collection as well. Doppelgangers sit across the table from one another and playfully point shotguns at the camera. Was this a family full of twins or could there be another explanation? beheaded subjects spirits All 108 images are now available online in high resolution on our Digital Collections site in the Edmund Philibert Photo Collection. This press release was produced by the St. Louis Public Library. The views expressed here are the author's own.