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The Perfect Medium: Photography and the Occult ハードカバー – 2005/10/1
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)
- 本の長さ288ページ
- 言語英語
- 出版社Yale University Press
- 発売日2005/10/1
- 寸法29.41 x 23.47 x 3.02 cm
- ISBN-100300111363
- ISBN-13978-0300111361
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著者について
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.
登録情報
- 出版社 : Yale University Press (2005/10/1)
- 発売日 : 2005/10/1
- 言語 : 英語
- ハードカバー : 288ページ
- ISBN-10 : 0300111363
- ISBN-13 : 978-0300111361
- 寸法 : 29.41 x 23.47 x 3.02 cm
- Amazon 売れ筋ランキング: - 330,561位洋書 (洋書の売れ筋ランキングを見る)
- - 268位Photography History
- - 962位Photography Collections & Exhibitions
- - 21,080位Religion & Spirituality (洋書)
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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.
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.