The perfect medium
Subtitle: photography and the occult
By: Clément Chéroux ... [et al.].
Contributors: Chéroux, Clément.; Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, N.Y.)
Publisher: Yale University Press
Published: 2005
Place of publication: New Haven, Conn
Language: eng
Number of pages: 288
Subjects: Spirit photography
Other titles: Photography and the occult.
Notes: Published in conjunction with an exhibition held at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, September 27-December 31, 2005.

Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Photography and the occult / Pierre Apraxine, Sophie Schmit; title: Photographs of spirits. Mumler's ghosts / Crista Cloutier; title: "A photographer of marvels" : Frederick Hudson and the beginnings of spirit photography in Europe / Andreas Fischer; title: Ghost dialects : spirit photogarphy in entertainment and belief / Clément Chéroux; title: "The most disreputable camera in the world" : spirit photography in the United Kindom in the early twentieth century / Andreas Fischer; title: Conan Doyle : a study in black and white / Sophie Schmit; title: Photographs of fluids. Photographs of fluids : an alphabet of invisible rays / Clément Chéroux; title: "La lune au front" : remarks on the history of the photography of thoughts / Andreas Fischer; title: The thoughography of Ted Serios / Stephen E. Braude; title: Photographs of mediums. "The reciprocal adaptation of optics and phenomena" : the photographic recording of materializations / Andreas Fischer; title: The "Margery" case / Pierre Apraxine; title: Flammarion and Eusapia Palladino / Denis Canguilhem; title: Monitoring the phenomena / Denis Canguilhem; title: Franek Kluski's casts / Sophie Schmit.