Aging Picture In The Attic

Photos in the attic.

Aging picture in the attic. Never heard of this saying before but it sounds like a reference to the picture of dorian gray who in short sells his soul so as to be able to live forever and to have a painting of himself. Based on a discovery in the attic of a barn in vignacourt france it is a story about. Your right these pictures do help identify problems to look for. Fearing the story was indecent prior to publication the magazine s editor deleted roughly five hundred words without wilde s knowledge.

Occasional trips were made to the attic by thelma for the purpose of gazing at the portrait of her real mother which had been relegated to the heap of rubbish and antiques. But id like to play devils advocate in all likely hood this doll had a leather face and after being kept in a moist dry attic space the leather might have shrunken like that of a raison leaving the appearance of an old person. And there are still so many other small leaks that are not easy to see except to an experienced eye. Photos in the attic is an australian movie project set during the great war.

Dirt dust and oil are also big culprits of photographic deterioration. Dorian gray s own face remains young and beautiful but the face in the painting looks older and more ugly as gray becomes more and more evil and immoral. It becomes so ugly and debased looking that dorian hides the portrait in the attic. Dorian gray actually in the case of dorian gray it s not a mirror image but a portrait.

Written by moving picture world synopsis. Eventually the picture is discovered by someone who figures out why it shows handsome young looking dorian grey. Caleb on september 30 2013 at 11 56 am. Cyclic conditions high heat and humidity followed by cold dry weather such as you would find in an attic or basement are especially bad for photos and may cause cracking and separation of the emulsion image from the support paper base of the photo.

The picture of dorian gray is a gothic and philosophical novel by oscar wilde first published complete in the july 1890 issue of lippincott s monthly magazine.