Limited Edition (300)
View-Master set of "A Case of Levitation: The Story of Frances
Naylor" by Christopher Schneberger. View-Master set comes with 2
reels (14 images) and printed insert detailing the story. The reels are new,
custom made by Fisher-Price for the artist. Each reel is signed and hand
numbered.
This set was made in conjunction with an exhibition by the same name, and
features the images of Frances Naylor made by her father during her amazing
period of levitation. Read below for a description of the exhibition:
Frances Naylor's legs were amputated when she was only two years old due to a
circulatory problem. But when she was thirteen Frances began having powerful
dreams that she could walk. One morning after such a dream, she woke to find she
had the ability to levitate.
Her mother was a devoutly religious woman and forbade Frances from displaying
this ability outside. Her father was fascinated however, and made a number of
stereo photographs of his daughter as she floated about their house.
Just as mysteriously as it began, the ability to levitate was lost about a
month later, and Frances sunk into a deep depression. She was later
institutionalized and died later of pneumonia. The photographs which her father
made remain as the only record of this amazing occurance.