The Perfect Medium : Photography and the Occult by Pierre Apraxine, Sophie Schmit, Clément Chéroux, Andreas Fischer and Denis Canguilhem
New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 2004. First English Language Edition - First Printing. Hardcover. Tall quarto, illustrated paper over boards, pp. 287. color and b&w illustrations, sources, index. -- Catalogue of an exhibit that took place at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. -- Contents. Photographs of Spirits: Mumler's Ghost. - A Photograph of Marvels, - Ghosts Dialectics. - The Most Disposable Camera in the World. - Conan Doyle. -- Photography of Fluids: La Lune au front. - The Thought Photography of Ted Serios. -- Photography of Mediums: The Reciprocal Adaptations of Optics and Phenomena. - The Margery Case. - Flammarion and Eusapia Palladino. - Monitoring the Phenomena. - Franek Kluski's Case. -- Condition. Fine. Item #10503
ISBN: 0300111363
"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".-googlebooks.
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