The perfect medium :photography and the occult
- 其他作者: Chaeroux, Claement.
- 出版: New Haven, Conn. ;London : Yale University Press 2005.
- 稽核項: 288 p. :ill. (some col.) ;30 cm.
- 標題: Spirit photography.
- ISBN: 0300111363 , 9780300111361
- 附註: 94年度教育部「建構圖書館多元館藏曁服務品質提升計畫」購藏 Includes bibliographical references and index. Photography and the occult / Pierre Apraxine, Sophie Schmit -- [pt. 1]. Photographs of spirits. Mumler's ghosts / Crista Cloutier -- "A photographer of marvels" : Frederick Hudson and the beginnings of spirit photography in Europe / Andreas Fischer -- Ghost dialectics : spirit photogarphy in entertainment and belief / Claement Chaeroux -- "The most disreputable camera in the world" : spirit photography in the United Kingdom in the early twentieth century / Andreas Fischer -- Conan Doyle : a study in black and white / Sophie Schmit -- [pt. 2]. Photographs of fluids. Photographs of fluids : an alphabet of invisible rays / Claement Chaeroux -- "La lune au front" : remarks on the history of the photography of thought / Andreas Fischer -- The thoughtography of Ted Serios / Stephen E. Braude -- [pt. 3]. Photographs of mediums. "The reciprocal adaptation of optics and phenomena" : the photographic recording of materializations / Andreas Fischer -- The "Margery" case / Pierre Apraxine -- Flammarion and Eusapia Palladino / Denis Canguilhem -- Monitoring the phenomena / Denis Canguilhem -- Franek Kluski's casts / Sophie Schmit.
- 系統號: 005204598
- 資料類型: 圖書
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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 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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