The Perfect Medium : Photography and the Occult by Pierre Apraxine, Sophie Schmit, Clément Chéroux, Andreas Fischer and Denis Canguilhem
by Denis Canguilhem, Clement Chéroux, Sophie Schmit, Andreas Fischer, Pierre Apraxine
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New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 2004. First English Language Edition - First Printing. Hardcover. Fine. 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. "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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- Lonesome Water Books (US)
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- Title
- The Perfect Medium : Photography and the Occult by Pierre Apraxine, Sophie Schmit, Clément Chéroux, Andreas Fischer and Denis Canguilhem
- Author
- Denis Canguilhem, Clement Chéroux, Sophie Schmit, Andreas Fischer, Pierre Apraxine
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Fine
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First English Language Edition - First Printing
- ISBN 10
- 0300111363
- ISBN 13
- 9780300111361
- Publisher
- Yale University Press
- Place of Publication
- New Haven and London
- Date Published
- 2004
- Keywords
- Modern Books, Nonfiction, Occult, Pseudoscience, Photography, History of, Mediums,
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