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

Bibliographic Details
Corporate Authors: Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, N.Y.)
Maison européenne de la photographie (Paris, France)
Other Authors: Chéroux, Clément, 1970-
Language:English
Published: New Haven, Conn. : Yale University Press, [2005], ©2005.
Subjects:
Photography, Artistic > Exhibitions.
Occultism in art > Exhibitions.
Spirit photography > Exhibitions.
Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, N.Y.) > Exhibitions.
Genre:
Exhibitions.
Physical Description:288 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 30 cm
Format: Book
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 photogarphy 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.