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The Perfect Medium: Photography And the Occult Copertina rigida – 30 settembre 2005

Edizione Inglese di Pierre Apraxine (Autore), Denis Canguilhem (Autore), Sophie Schmit (Autore),
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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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  1. Lunghezza stampa
    288 pagine
  2. Lingua
    Inglese
  3. Editore
    Yale Univ Pr
  4. Data di pubblicazione
    30 settembre 2005
  5. Dimensioni
    29.41 x 23.47 x 3.02 cm
  6. ISBN-10
    0300111363
  7. ISBN-13
    978-0300111361
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L'autore


CLÉMENT CHÉROUX is a historian of photography and assistant editor-in-chief of the review Études photographiques. ANDREAS FISCHER is the Curator of Photographs at the Institut für Grenzgebiete der Psychologie und Psychohygiene in Freiburg, Germany. PIERRE APRAXINE is director of the Howard Gilman Foundation in New York. DENIS CANGUILHEM is an art dealer living in Paris. SOPHIE SCHMIT is a film editor and screenwriter.

Dettagli prodotto

  • Editore ‏ : ‎ Yale Univ Pr (30 settembre 2005)
  • Lingua ‏ : ‎ Inglese
  • Copertina rigida ‏ : ‎ 288 pagine
  • ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0300111363
  • ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0300111361
  • Peso articolo ‏ : ‎ 1,97 Kilograms
  • Dimensioni ‏ : ‎ 29.41 x 23.47 x 3.02 cm
  • Recensioni dei clienti:
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Amicale
4,0 su 5 stelle Impeccable, mais je suis francophone...
Recensito in Francia il 11 agosto 2018
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Et germaniste, ça n'arrange rien.
Bon, je peux lire l'anglais.
Mais pourquoi les éditions des musées de France ne republient-ils pas ce bijou ?
Les exemplaires français vendus en ligne sont, de fait, hors de prix.
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johnny de philo
5,0 su 5 stelle Excellent and intelligent
Recensito nel Regno Unito il 27 agosto 2014
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Brilliant reproductions and extremely erudite discussions. A must read for anyone working on mediumship (or indeed stepping into the strange world of mediumship)
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M. Hori
5,0 su 5 stelle An Indicator of a far Less Sophisticated Time (from Ahadada Books)
Recensito negli Stati Uniti il 14 giugno 2008
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I've been using this book along with Deborah Blum's Ghost Hunters in my classes at Waseda University, and one immediately notices the disparity between verbal descriptions of the evidence that convinced the Victorian savants that certain mediums and types of phenomena were "genuine" and the photographic evidence that helped to convince them as lavishly reproduced in this volume. Indeed, we must hold in abeyance our own sophisticated knowledge of special effects in this age of paint shop and Star Wars to keep from laughing out loud at the crude hoaxes that went far to convince such obviously intelligent people as the scientist William Crookes and the naturalist Alfred Wallace to accept the existence of the supernatural based on this kind of material. Then, of course, there are the clearer, more obviously "staged," self-defined hoaxes as well, created to educate and amuse the dupes and the skeptics, respectively, and some great examples are included in this section of the book. If these things, along with the assorted, regurgitated bolts of cloth or glowing strings of muslin drawn from the nasal cavity and draped over the forehead or plucked from the groin or anus of a medium and held fluttering at the end of a wire in the claustrophobic darkness of the seance room were actually considered "proof" then we must suspect that just about every account of things seen and experienced that have come down to us in "scientific" investigative narratives of the 19th and early 20th centuries to be tainted with this same sort of innocence. This would include such remarkable cases as D.D. Home and even Mrs. Piper and her cross-correspondences. Of course, I'm not suggesting that any of these well-meaning investigators willfully tried to misrepresent what they saw, but I suspect that genuine inexperience both with observing and keeping tabs on their subjects, as well as an undeveloped understanding of abnormal psychology, as well--dare I say it?--the will to believe,--skewed their observations. The creation of a self-consistent narrative covered these observational defects, and imposed a patina of believability on the phenomena described. The infamous Cottingly fairies are included as an index as to just how far the will to believe could push the gullibility of intelligent people, along with such near pornographic seance room shots as the extruding of a sheep's lung (think "spirit hand")from the navel--or perhaps lower--of the attractive Margery the medium, her delta of venus barely covered with a gentleman's handkerchief. Having said this, however, one series of photographs from the 1940's taken in England that includes a levitating table and a near chaotic snap of one of the circle apparently being roughly thrown or catpulted into the air over the heads of the others, gives one pause. The essays in this book are scholarly, well-documented, and good to great. Highly recommended even if a little pricey.
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Robert Mro
5,0 su 5 stelle Excellent
Recensito negli Stati Uniti il 9 giugno 2007
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Spirit photography holds an important place in the history of photography because it's really the first time that double exposures and mattes were used to manipulate images.

This book, which is the partner to a museum show of the same name, doesn't take a position as to whether any of the pictures are real or hoaxes. It leaves that up to you. The purpose, however, is to give the history of this fascinating area of photography, which it does very well. It is beautifully printed in Italy with a durable hard cover and filled with excellent examples. It also treats the subject in an academic style the I found informative.

If you're like me, you will find it a good addition to you're photography book collection or a fun coffee table attraction. It might even leave you scratching your head, especially in the case of Ted Serios.
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