{"id":16534,"date":"2015-03-17T03:23:13","date_gmt":"2015-03-17T02:23:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/?p=16534"},"modified":"2015-03-17T03:23:13","modified_gmt":"2015-03-17T02:23:13","slug":"the-art-of-shadowgraphy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/2015\/03\/17\/the-art-of-shadowgraphy\/","title":{"rendered":"The Art of Shadowgraphy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"trewey1.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/trewey1.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Though Shadowgraphy has been known from time immemorial, and as &#8217;twere a thing of bye-gone days, Trewey&#8217;s practice of the art comes as a novelty, and is highly entertaining alike to the schoolboy and the lean and slippered pantaloon.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Thus the overwrought prefatory note in this <a href=\"https:\/\/archive.org\/details\/artofshadowgraph00trewuoft\" target=\"_blank\">small book of hand-shadow exercises<\/a> by Felicien Trewey. In addition to diagrams showing the creation of the familiar animal shapes there&#8217;s a brief life of Monsieur Trewey, &#8220;the original Fantaisist Humoristique&#8221;, and some details of Trewey&#8217;s shadow pantomimes. Since these involve various props I find them a bit of a cheat, rather like origami shapes that require two sheets of paper or even a pair of scissors.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"trewey2.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/trewey2.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The book opens and closes with ads for Hamley&#8217;s toy shop, still the most celebrated shop of its kind in London. If it&#8217;s a surprise to see\u00a0Hamley&#8217;s promoting their wares with devils and skulls, the latter seem fitting for the page of sinister &#8220;ventriloquial figures&#8221;, two of which are shown smoking cigarettes. The walking figure with &#8220;pneumatic mouth&#8221; is no doubt the one that tries to strangle you while you sleep.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"trewey3.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/trewey3.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"trewey4.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/trewey4.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"trewey5.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/trewey5.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"trewey6.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/trewey6.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Previously on { feuilleton }<br \/>\n\u2022 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/2013\/09\/17\/magicians\/\">Magicians<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Though Shadowgraphy has been known from time immemorial, and as &#8217;twere a thing of bye-gone days, Trewey&#8217;s practice of the art comes as a novelty, and is highly entertaining alike to the schoolboy and the lean and slippered pantaloon. Thus the overwrought prefatory note in this small book of hand-shadow exercises by Felicien Trewey. In &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/2015\/03\/17\/the-art-of-shadowgraphy\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;The Art of Shadowgraphy&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[42],"tags":[7110,521],"class_list":["post-16534","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","tag-felicien-trewey","tag-origami"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pq7rV-4iG","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16534","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16534"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16534\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16534"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16534"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16534"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}