Perfect Medium Photography and the Occult

Name: Perfect Medium Photography and the Occult
Price: 63.22 USD
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ISBN: 9780300111361

ISBN-10: 0300111363

ISBN-13: 9780300111361

Edition: 2005

Authors: Clement Cheroux, Pierre Apraxine, Andreas Fischer, Denis Canguilhem, Sophie Schmit

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This fascinating book assembles over 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.

Book details

List price: $75.00
Copyright year: 2005
Publisher: Yale University Press
Publication date: 10/1/2005
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 288
Size: 0.93" wide x 1.15" long x 0.12" tall
Weight: 4.334
Language: English



Photography and the occult



Photographs of spirits


Mumler's ghosts



"A photographer of marvels" : Frederick Hudson and the beginnings of spirit photography in Europe



Ghost dialectics : spirit photography in entertainment and belief



"The most disreputable camera in the world" : spirit photography in the United Kingdom in the early twentieth century



Conan Doyle : a study in black and white



Photographs of fluids


Photographs of fluids : an alphabet of invisible rays



"La Lune au front" : remarks on the history of the photography of thought



The thoughtography of Ted Serios



Photographs of mediums


"The reciprocal adaptation of optics and phenomena" : the photographic recording of materializations



The "Margery" case



Flammarion and Eusapia Palladino



Monitoring the phenomena



Franek Kluski's casts