Roger Parry, a photographer who produced experimental images that related to both modernism and Surrealism, also had a commercial studio. He produced this image for a promotional campaign for Andrรฉ Mauroisโs science fiction tale The Weigher of Souls (Le Peseur dโames), in which a doctorโs experiments to find immortality reveal that life force is a gas that escapes the body at death. The photograph illustrates a sentence from the book about a ball that contained the spirits of two brothers captured in an invisible beam of light. | quoted from source
