The Perfect Medium: Photography and the Occult by Chéroux, Clément

The Perfect Medium: Photography and the Occult

The mesmerizing photographic history of occult phenomena, from levitations and apparitions to spectres, ghosts, and auras. In...
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Author: Clément Chéroux
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The Perfect Medium: Photography and the Occult by Chéroux, Clément

The Perfect Medium: Photography and the Occult

$228.07

The Perfect Medium: Photography and the Occult

$228.07
Author: Clément Chéroux
Format: Hardcover
Language: English

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)



Author: Clément Chéroux, Pierre Apraxine, Andreas Fischer
Publisher: Yale University Press
Published: 10/01/2005
Pages: 288
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 4.28lbs
Size: 11.58h x 9.24w x 1.19d
ISBN: 9780300111361


Review Citation(s):
Publishers Weekly 09/26/2005 pg. 79
People Weekly 10/31/2005 pg. 56
Library Journal 11/01/2005 pg. 72
Choice 02/01/2006 pg. 1008

About the Author

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.


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