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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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Author: Clement Cheroux,Andreas Fischer,Pierre Apraxine,Denis Canguilhem,Sophie Schmit,Crista Cloutier,Stephen E. Braude
Number of Pages: 288 pages
Published Date: 10 Oct 2005
Publisher: Yale University Press
Publication Country: New Haven, United States
Language: English
ISBN: 9780300111361
Download Link: Click Here
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