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The perfect medium : photography and the occult / Clément Chéroux [and others].

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublisher: New Haven, Conn. ; London : Yale University Press, [2005]Copyright date: ©2005Edition: English language editionDescription: 287 pages : illustrations (some colour) ; 30 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 0300111363
  • 9780300111361
Other title:
  • Photography and the occult
Uniform titles:
  • Le troisième œil : la photographie et l'occulte. English.
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 133.92
LOC classification:
  • BF1381 .P47 2005
Contents:
Photography and the occult / Pierre Apraxine, Sophie Schmit -- [pt. 1]. Photographs of spirits. Mumler's ghosts / Crista Cloutier -- "A photographer of marvels" : Frederick Hudson and the beginnings of spirit photography in Europe / Andreas Fischer -- Ghost dialects : spirit photography in entertainment and belief / Clément Chéroux -- "The most disreputable camera in the world" : spirit photography in the United Kindom in the early twentieth century / Andreas Fischer -- Conan Doyle : a study in black and white / Sophie Schmit -- [pt. 2]. Photographs of fluids. Photographs of fluids : an alphabet of invisible rays / Clément Chéroux -- "La lune au front" : remarks on the history of the photography of thoughts / Andreas Fischer -- The thoughography of Ted Serios / Stephen E. Braude -- [pt. 3]. Photographs of mediums. "The reciprocal adaptation of optics and phenomena" : the photographic recording of materializations / Andreas Fischer -- The "Margery" case / Pierre Apraxine -- Flammarion and Eusapia Palladino / Denis Canguilhem -- Monitoring the phenomena / Denis Canguilhem -- Franek Kluski's casts / Sophie Schmit.
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Catalog of the exhibition held at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, N.Y., Sept. 27-Dec. 31, 2005.

"This catalog is a revised edition 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 Editions Gallimard, Paris, in 2004" -- p. [5].

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

Photography and the occult / Pierre Apraxine, Sophie Schmit -- [pt. 1]. Photographs of spirits. Mumler's ghosts / Crista Cloutier -- "A photographer of marvels" : Frederick Hudson and the beginnings of spirit photography in Europe / Andreas Fischer -- Ghost dialects : spirit photography in entertainment and belief / Clément Chéroux -- "The most disreputable camera in the world" : spirit photography in the United Kindom in the early twentieth century / Andreas Fischer -- Conan Doyle : a study in black and white / Sophie Schmit -- [pt. 2]. Photographs of fluids. Photographs of fluids : an alphabet of invisible rays / Clément Chéroux -- "La lune au front" : remarks on the history of the photography of thoughts / Andreas Fischer -- The thoughography of Ted Serios / Stephen E. Braude -- [pt. 3]. Photographs of mediums. "The reciprocal adaptation of optics and phenomena" : the photographic recording of materializations / Andreas Fischer -- The "Margery" case / Pierre Apraxine -- Flammarion and Eusapia Palladino / Denis Canguilhem -- Monitoring the phenomena / Denis Canguilhem -- Franek Kluski's casts / Sophie Schmit.

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