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Photography and Spirit (Paperback)
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Photography and Spirit (Paperback)
Series: Exposures
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List price R711
Loot Price R582
Discovery Miles 5 820
You Save R129 (18%)
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Can film capture what our eyes can't see? There are many examples
both historical and contemporary of photographs of spirits or
ghosts. These images have been both derided as hoaxes or, at the
other extreme, held up as irrefutable proof of the otherworld. One
of two books in Reaktion's new series "Exposures", "Photography and
Spirit" examines these tantalizingly blurred images of phantoms,
psychical emanations and religious apparitions. Drawing on eighty
images taken between 1860 and today, John Harvey explores spirit
photography from the various perspectives of religion, science and
art. Some of the photographs were taken by scientists, others by
amateur and commercial photographers or mediums, and still others
by robotic surveillance devices. The diverse origins of spirit
photographs have inspired a multiplicity of interpretations and
engendered, in some cases, high levels of scepticism. Harvey's
analysis probes the connections between the images, human
imagination, larger cultural traditions and scientific thought.
"Photography and Spirit" transforms what are often fringe objects
of kitsch into revelatory artifacts of cultural history, drawing
from them thought-provoking insights into the historical
connections between the material and spiritual worlds,
representations of grief, and human culture's enduring fascination
with the supernatural. Uniquely blending art, science and human
imagination, photo images of ethereal spirits blur the border
between what is real and what is fantastic. "Photography and
Spirit" challenges our preconceived notions and offers an
intriguing new perspective on the nature of photography.
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