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The Perfect Medium: Photography and the Occult
by Cheroux, Clement and Andreas Fischer, et al
- Used
- Hardcover
- Condition
- VG+ (scuffs scratches to boards; light bumping/crinkling to spine ends.)
- ISBN 10
- 0300111363
- ISBN 13
- 9780300111361
- Seller
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Columbia, Pennsylvania, United States
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About This Item
New Haven, Conn: Yale University Press, 2005. Hardcover. VG+ (scuffs scratches to boards; light bumping/crinkling to spine ends.). Photographic paper boards, 288 pp., many BW & color illus. Issued in conjunction with a 2005 exhibition held in New York. Essays: Photography and the Occult / Pierre Apraxine, Sophie Schmit -- Mumler's Ghosts / Crista Cloutier -- "A Photographer of Marvels": Frederick Hudson and the beginnings of spirit photography in Europe / Andreas Fischer -- Ghost Dialectics: Spirit photography in entertainment and belief / Clement Cheroux -- "The Most Disreputable Camera in the World": Spirit photography in the United Kingdom in the early twentieth century / Andreas Fischer -- Conan Doyle: A study in black and white / Sophie Schmit -- Photographs of Fluids: An alphabet of invisible rays / Clement Cheroux -- "La lune au front": Remarks on the history of the photography of thought / Andreas Fischer -- The Thoughtography of Ted Serios / Stephen E. Braude -- "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.
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- Bookseller
- Mullen Books, Inc. ABAA / ILAB
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 136315
- Title
- The Perfect Medium: Photography and the Occult
- Author
- Cheroux, Clement and Andreas Fischer, et al
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - VG+ (scuffs scratches to boards; light bumping/crinkling to spine ends.)
- Quantity Available
- 1
- ISBN 10
- 0300111363
- ISBN 13
- 9780300111361
- Publisher
- Yale University Press
- Place of Publication
- New Haven, Conn
- Date Published
- 2005
- Keywords
- Photography ; Occult ; Spirits ; ;
- Bookseller catalogs
- Photography;
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Mullen Books, Inc. ABAA / ILAB
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About Mullen Books, Inc. ABAA / ILAB
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