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The Perfect Medium

Photography and the Occult

By Pierre Apraxine, Clement Cheroux, Andreas Fischer, Denis Canguilhem, Sophie Schmit

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| Hardcover | 9780300111361

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In the early days of photography, many believed and hoped that the camera would prove more efficient than the human eye in capturing the unseen. Spiritualists and animists of the nineteenth century seized on the new technology as a method of substantiating the existence of supernatural beings and haContinue

In the early days of photography, many believed and hoped that the camera would prove more efficient than the human eye in capturing the unseen. Spiritualists and animists of the nineteenth century seized on the new technology as a method of substantiating the existence of supernatural beings and happenings. This fascinating book assembles more than 250 photographic images from the Victorian era to the 1960s, each purporting to document an occult phenomenon: levitations, apparitions, transfigurations, ectoplasms, spectres, ghosts, and auras. Drawn from the archives of European and American occult societies and private and public collections, the photographs in many cases have never before been published.

The Perfect Medium studies these rare and remarkable photographs through cultural, historical, and artistic lenses. More than mere curiosities, the images on film are important records of the cultural forces and technical methods that brought about their production. They document in unexpected ways a period when developing photographic technology merged with a popular obsession with the occult to create a new genre of haunting experimental photographs.

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  • Summoning the Spirits

    In March 1848, the two Fox sisters, of Hydesville, New York, demonstrated that disembodied knocks and raps, presumably emanating from the beyond, occurred in rooms in which they happened to be present. Their mother soon displayed the same talent, and ... (read full critics)

    nybooks published on Tue, 24 Aug 2010

  • Summoning the Spirits

    In March 1848, the two Fox sisters, of Hydesville, New York, demonstrated that disembodied knocks and raps, presumably emanating from the beyond, occurred in rooms in which they happened to be present. Their mother soon displayed the same talent, and ... (read full critics)

     published on Thu, 23 Feb 2006

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  • English Books
  • Hardcover 288 Pages
  • ISBN-10: 0300111363
  • ISBN-13: 9780300111361
  • Publisher: Yale University Press
  • Pub date: Oct 01, 2005
  • Dimensions: 1871 mm x 1548 mm x 194 mm Just how big is that?
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