Back in the day before selfies and smartphones, people would get their pictures taken at fairs and carnivals by a photographer. Backdrops to these photos were commonly crescent moons crafted out of paper and set in a sky full of stars to portray the illusion that people were literally sitting in the sky.
The irony of these photos was that even though they were beautiful, they were impossible, highlighted by the appearance of stars in the crescent where the moon’s shadow would typically be in real life. Despite this flaw, photos sitting in a paper moon had meaning because they were taken with a loved one.
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