The Perfect Medium: Photography and the Occult

by Clément Chéroux, Pierre Apraxine, Andreas Fischer, et al.

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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0300111363
• ISBN13: 9780300111361
• Release Date: October 2005
• Publisher: Yale University Press
• Length: 288 Pages
• Weight: 4.30 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 9.2" x 11.6"