Faces of the Living Dead: The Belief in Spirit Photography
by Martyn Jolly
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"Faces of the Living Dead offers an examination of paranormal photography's popularity during the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Extensively illustrated throughout with previously unpublished black & white, as well as duotone, photographs from the British Library's archives, Faces of the Living Dead offers a beautifully focused study of this movement. The fraudulent nature of the photographs in this book is clear, and that is why it is such a fascinating study. Tied to historical eras show more of war and destruction, spirit photography enjoyed wide acceptance, as laypeople and celebrities alike looked for answers and emotional connections unavailable to them in the temporal world. As yet another perspective on the history of visual communication, Faces of the Living Dead offers a timeless insight into the human condition. The same as Photoshop can eradicate anything considered undesirable from photographs today, the images and stories in this book are the Photoshop of their time, providing the means to cope with the inexplicable and undesirable experiences of modernity. Martyn Jolly is the Head of Photomedia at the Australian National University School of Art. He has been researching spirit photography for several years as part of a wider interest in the affective power of the photograph. He is also an artist and his work has been exhibited throughout Australia and internationally."--Publisher's website. show lessTags
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This book deals less with spirit photography than with mediums & ectoplasm spewed forth from them. The pictures shown as well as the fact that so many mediums involved in that type of display were exposed as frauds makes one less apt to believe that these are actually spirits captured on film. Double exposures look more real in comparison. Nor does this book even show the few photographs of ghosts that have been tested & believed to be genuine (such as the hooded figures on the famous Tulip staircase, the brown lady of Raynham Hall, the faces trailing behind the S.S Watertown, etc...)
Another reason to doubt the fact that these are true entities is that these displays are no longer carried on by modern mediums.
Another reason to doubt the fact that these are true entities is that these displays are no longer carried on by modern mediums.
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Martyn Jolly is Head of Photomedia at the Australian National University School of Art.
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