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The Perfect Medium: Photography and the Occult

Door Clément Chéroux e.a.

Categorie
Fotografie (Kunst)
Boeknummer
#372318-KI20
Titel
The Perfect Medium: Photography and the Occult
Auteur
Chéroux, Clément & Andreas Fischer & Pierre Apraxine & Denis Canguilhem & Sophie Schmit
Boektype
Gebonden hardcover
Uitgeverij
New Haven/London : Yale University Press
Jaar van uitgave
2005
ISBN10
0300111363
ISBN13
9780300111361
Taal
Engels
Beschrijving
Original pictorial boards, illustrated with numerous photographs mostly in b/w, 4to.
Samenvatting
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, his... (Lees verder)torical, 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.
Pagina's
294
Conditie
Goed — Some very light foxing top/bottom cut and first free endpaper; top right corner front cover slightyl worn.
Prijs
€ 125,00

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