The perfect medium : photography and the occult

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The perfect medium : photography and the occult

Clément Chéroux ... [et al.]

Yale University Press, c2005

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The perfect medium

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Catalogue of the exhibition held at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, 27 September-31 December 2005

This catalogue is a rev. ed. of "Le troisième œil: la photographie et l'occulte", issued in conjunction with the exhibition held at la Maison Européenne de la Photographie, Paris, 2 November 2004-6 February 2005, Published by Gallimard, Paris, in 2004

Includes bibliographical references (p. 276-281) and index

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The mesmerizing photographic history of occult phenomena, from levitations and apparitions to spectres, ghosts, and auras. 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. Exhibition Schedule: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York (September 26 - December 31, 2005)

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