Photography and Spirit
Photography and Spirit Can film capture what our eyes can't see? Photography and Spirit examines these mesmerizing images of phantoms, psychical emanations, and religious apparitions.Drawing upon…
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Photography and Spirit
Can film capture what our eyes can't see? Photography and Spirit examines these mesmerizing images of phantoms, psychical emanations, and religious apparitions.Drawing upon eighty images taken between 1860 and today, John Harvey explores spirit photography from the various perspectives of religion, science, and art. There are many examples--both historical and contemporary--of photographs of spirits or "ghosts." These images alternately have been derided as hoaxes or, at the other extreme, held up as irrefutable proof of the otherworld.
The diverse origins of the spirit photographs have inspired a multiplicity of interpretations and engendered, in some cases, high levels of skepticism. Some of the photographs he considers were taken by scientists, others by amateur and commercial photographers, and still others by robotic surveillance devices. Harvey's analysis probes
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