{"id":1200,"date":"2009-07-01T04:55:11","date_gmt":"2009-07-01T04:55:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/moscowcoffeereview.com\/carpecakem\/?p=1200"},"modified":"2009-07-01T07:25:13","modified_gmt":"2009-07-01T07:25:13","slug":"some-pictures-need-a-border","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/moscowcoffeereview.com\/carpecakem\/2009\/07\/01\/some-pictures-need-a-border\/","title":{"rendered":"Some pictures need a border"},"content":{"rendered":"

It was an irresistible development of modern illustration (so largely photographic) that borders should be abandoned and the \u201cpicture\u201d end only with the paper. This method may be suitable for photographs; but it is altogether inappropriate for the pictures that illustrate or are inspired by fairy-stories. An enchanted forest requires a margin, even an elaborate border. To print it conterminous with the page, like a \u201cshot\u201d of the Rockies in Picture Post, as if it were indeed a \u201csnap\u201d of fairyland or a \u201csketch by our artist on the spot,\u201d is a folly and an abuse.<\/p>\n

-J.R.R. Tolkien, On Fairy Stories, (Note H)<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

This is not something I had never noticed or considered, but I think he’s right. Proper fairy-stories need to be compartmentalized to some degree to work their magic. It may seem at the surface that this is “throwing the camera a wink” again, but I think it’s of a different sort. The fairy-story doesn’t need to throw the wink because the border is already there. It finds freedom within the margin’s constraints.<\/p>\n

The Bible is a curious case. It must be treated as both a true myth and as raw true history (of the photographic sort) to observe it’s full glory. It’s multi-faceted.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

It was an irresistible development of modern illustration (so largely photographic) that borders should be abandoned and the \u201cpicture\u201d end only with the paper. This method may be suitable for photographs; but it is altogether inappropriate for the pictures that illustrate or are inspired by fairy-stories. An enchanted forest requires a margin, even an elaborate … <\/p>\n

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