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Auras of the dearly departed

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November 2006, no. 286

Faces of the Living Dead: The belief in spirit photography by Martyn Jolly

Miegunyah Press, $49.95 hb, 153 pp

Auras of the dearly departed

by
November 2006, no. 286

Photography has always had a close relationship with death, indeed one of the more poignant catch cries of early portrait photography exhorted clients to ‘secure the shadow, before the substance fade’. An intriguing part of this emotionally charged territory is spirit photography – a sub-culture of photographs from the mid-nineteenth to early twentieth centuries that purport to show ectoplasms, ghosts and auras of the dearly departed.

Faces of the Living Dead: The belief in spirit photography

Faces of the Living Dead: The belief in spirit photography

by Martyn Jolly

Miegunyah Press, $49.95 hb, 153 pp

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