The Ghost in the Photograph
With Halloween rapidly approaching, it seems like a good time to go on a ghost hunt. And where better than the Metropolitan Museum of Art’s current exhibition, The Perfect Medium: Photography and the Occult.
You’ll see portraits of living people accompanied by ghostly images of friends or loved ones. There are levitating chairs, magical fire, mediums in the grip of dramatic trances, and evidence of ectoplasm, a substance believed to be a material representation of the spiritual world. All very easy to dismiss in broad daylight, perhaps, but on a dark and stormy night....who knows?
Posted by on 10/10 at 03:37 PM
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