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THE BOY WHO WAS NEVER HERE

The Boy Who Was Never Here

BY LYRAM VESKOR

A photograph. A missing plate. An impossible absence.

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A boy stands in the background of a photograph taken at Giza in 1911. In the next exposure he is closer to the camera. In the third he is gone. He is holding a photograph, and nobody can say what is in it.

The plate that would answer the question is missing from the envelope, and scratched into the edge of the plate before it, in the photographer's own hand, is an instruction: do not develop the next plate.

A researcher spends eleven months trying to establish whether the boy was ever there. What he finds is a photographic conservator who refuses to use the word authentic without specifying which part she means, a surveyor who sailed for Alexandria in 1911 and left three parcels of paper behind him, a psychologist who ran experiments under a car park in 1972 and then stopped publishing, and a number written in pencil in a notation nobody has used since the invention of satellites.

The explanation, when it arrives, is not the one the reader has been recruited to want. It is worse.

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A boy stands in the background of a photograph taken at Giza in 1911. In the next exposure he is closer to the camera. In the third he is gone. He is holding a photograph, and nobody can say what is in it.

The plate that would answer the question is missing from the envelope, and scratched into the edge of the plate before it, in the photographer's own hand, is an instruction: do not develop the next plate.

A researcher spends eleven months trying to establish whether the boy was ever there. What he finds is a photographic conservator who refuses to use the word authentic without specifying which part she means, a surveyor who sailed for Alexandria in 1911 and left three parcels of paper behind him, a psychologist who ran experiments under a car park in 1972 and then stopped publishing, and a number written in pencil in a notation nobody has used since the invention of satellites.

The explanation, when it arrives, is not the one the reader has been recruited to want. It is worse.
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