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Book Synopsis The Case for Spirit Photography by : Arthur Conan Doyle
Download or read book The Case for Spirit Photography written by Arthur Conan Doyle and published by . This book was released on 1923 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The publicity given to the recent attacks on Psychic Photography has been out of all proportion to their scientific value as evidence. When Sir Arthur Conan Doyle returned to Great Britain, after his successful tour in America, the controversy was in full swing. With characteristic promptitude he immediately decided to meet these negative attacks by a positive counter-attack, and this volume is the outcome of that decision. We have used the term Spirit Photography on the title-page as being the popular name by which these phenomena are known. This does not imply that either Sir Arthur or I imagine that everything supernormal must be of spirit origin. There is, undoubtedly, a broad borderland where these photographic effects may be produced from forces contained within ourselves. This merges into those higher phenomena of which many cases are here described. Those desiring fuller information on this subject are referred to Photo graphing the Invisible, by James Coates.
Book Synopsis The Case Against Spirit Photographs by : C. Vincent Patrick
Download or read book The Case Against Spirit Photographs written by C. Vincent Patrick and published by DigiCat. This book was released on 2022-07-21 with total page 67 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The Case Against Spirit Photographs" by Vincent Patrick and Walter Whately Smith tapped into the fascination of spirits and ghosts that permeated society during the 20th century. Since this eagerness to believe in ghosts still exists over a century later, reading early texts debunking their existence is an insightful and entertaining experience that modern readers will love.
Book Synopsis The Spirit Photographer by : Jon Michael Varese
Download or read book The Spirit Photographer written by Jon Michael Varese and published by Abrams. This book was released on 2018-04-17 with total page 397 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A charlatan is haunted by sinister secrets and spirits from his past in this Gothic novel of the Reconstruction Era. Boston, 1870. Photographer Edward Moody has gained fame and fortune capturing the images of spirits in his photo portraits. He lures grieving widows and mourning mothers into his studio with promises of catching the ghosts of their deceased loved ones with his camera. But his elaborate hoax is about to yield shocking results . . . While attempting to capture the spirit of an abolitionist senator’s young son, a different spectral figure develops before Moody’s eyes. The camera has seemingly captured the spirit of a beautiful young woman from Moody’s past—the daughter of an escaped slave he knew long ago. He immediately sets out for the Louisiana bayou to resolve their unfinished business?and perhaps save his soul . . .
Book Synopsis The Case for Spirit Photography by : Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
Download or read book The Case for Spirit Photography written by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle and published by Graphic Arts Books. This book was released on 2020-09-22 with total page 105 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: ”Doyle’s modesty of language conceals a profound tolerance of the human complexity”-John Le Carré “Every Writer owes something to Holmes.” -T.S. Eliot While the controversy of Psychic Photography was gripping the early 20th Century United Kingdom, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle set out to investigate the most notable cases. In The Case for Spirit Photography, he aimed to defend the validity of capturing images of spirits with a camera. The spectacle of spirit photography had become popular in the late 19th Century, but by the 1920’s The Crewe Circle, an infamous English spiritualist group had become the center of a national controversy attacking spirit photography as a hoax. Doyle, a leader of the Spiritualist movement, wrote this investigation in defense of the group, and conjointly looks at other cases of supernatural incidences. As we face current public figures dismissive of empirical scientific evidence, this is a fascinating look at the intrigue of conviction. As the writer of one of fictions most colorful and abiding detectives, Doyle’s deductions in The Case for Spirit Photography are enthralling. With an eye-catching new cover, and professionally typeset manuscript, this edition of The Case is both modern and readable.
Book Synopsis The Strange Case of William Mumler, Spirit Photographer by : Louis Kaplan
Download or read book The Strange Case of William Mumler, Spirit Photographer written by Louis Kaplan and published by U of Minnesota Press. This book was released on 2008 with total page 305 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the 1860s, William Mumler photographed ghostsa or so he claimed. Faint images of the dearly departed lurked in the background with the living, like his well-known photo of the recently assassinated Abraham Lincoln comforting Mary Todd. The practice came to be known as spirit photography, and some believed Mumler was channeling the dead. Skeptics, however, called it a fraudulent trick on the gullible, taking advantage of the grieving at a time of suffering and loss. Mumlera s insistence that his work brought back the dead led to a sensational trial in 1869 that was the talk of the nation.
Book Synopsis The Case for Spirit Photography by : Arthur Conan Doyle
Download or read book The Case for Spirit Photography written by Arthur Conan Doyle and published by Good Press. This book was released on 2019-11-21 with total page 126 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'The Case for Spirit Photography' is a book that argues in favor of spirit photography, proposing that the phenomena is indeed a marriage between the scientific and the spiritual world. It is a type of photography whose primary goal is to capture images of ghosts and other spiritual entities, especially in ghost hunting. Perhaps, notably, the author of this book is not known for his trust in such superstitions, for this individual is none other than the author of the Sherlock Holmes series, Arthur Conan Doyle.
Book Synopsis The Case for Spirit Photography by : Arthur Conan Doyle
Download or read book The Case for Spirit Photography written by Arthur Conan Doyle and published by . This book was released on 1923 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The publicity given to the recent attacks on Psychic Photography has been out of all proportion to their scientific value as evidence. When Sir Arthur Conan Doyle returned to Great Britain, after his successful tour in America, the controversy was in full swing. With characteristic promptitude he immediately decided to meet these negative attacks by a positive counter-attack, and this volume is the outcome of that decision. We have used the term Spirit Photography on the title-page as being the popular name by which these phenomena are known. This does not imply that either Sir Arthur or I imagine that everything supernormal must be of spirit origin. There is, undoubtedly, a broad borderland where these photographic effects may be produced from forces contained within ourselves. This merges into those higher phenomena of which many cases are here described. Those desiring fuller information on this subject are referred to Photo graphing the Invisible, by James Coates.
Book Synopsis The Case For Spirit Photography by : Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
Download or read book The Case For Spirit Photography written by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle and published by . This book was released on 2024-05-14 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Can the camera show us those who have passed on? Yes!" Arthur Conan Doyle said upon publishing The Case For Spirit Photography in 1923. The book offers a thorough account of his own experiences with spirit photography and those of others. The first spirit photographer, William Mumler, began working in Boston in 1861. Faint figures believed to be lost loved ones appeared in photos behind those sitting in front of the camera. Over the years, Mumler took thousands of spirit photographs, including one of Mary Todd Lincoln showing the assassinated president behind her. P.T. Barnum, always one to enjoy a good humbug, was intrigued as well and displayed several Mumler photographs in his American Museum. But with growing success came more skeptics. And eventually, some of them noticed that several spirits were actually people still living. By 1869, the police were on the case and claimed Mumler was swindling people out of their money. The spirit photographer went to court, supported by the Spiritualist community who maintained their belief that he was innocent and genuine. Mumler was exonerated when no one could prove he'd faked his photos. His legal troubles ultimately hurt his business, but spirit photography lived on through other mediums wielding otherworldly cameras. Doyle believed many of them to be genuine and often came to the defense of photographers accused of fraud. He had been one of Spiritualism's loudest and best-known evangelists in the early twentieth century. He, and its millions of followers, believed that we never die-we merely move on to another plane that could amazingly be captured on film. The author's good friend, Harry Houdini, spent many years exposing fraudulent mediums that capitalized on Spiritualism and people's willingness to believe that the dead could talk. One example was spirit photographer Alexander Martin of Denver, Colorado. Doyle told Houdini that he was "a very wonderful man in his particular line." So the magician paid him a visit, and once inside the studio he attempted to explore the dark room. After a few secretive photographic shenanigans, Martin shared some ghosts. Houdini concluded the photos were simply double exposures. "From a logical, rational point of view, Spirit photography is a most barefaced imposition and stands as evidence of the credulity of those who are in sympathy with the superstitions of occultism," he wrote in 1924's A Magician Among the Spirits. "It is also evidence of how unscrupulous mediums become and how calloused their consciences." Doyle clearly disagreed. Genuine or not, the stories presented within these pages are fascinating and a hundred years later the photos remain extraordinary. And they are faithfully reproduced as published in 1923.
Book Synopsis The Case for Spirit Photography by : Arthur Conan Doyle
Download or read book The Case for Spirit Photography written by Arthur Conan Doyle and published by . This book was released on 1920 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Apparitionists by : Peter Manseau
Download or read book The Apparitionists written by Peter Manseau and published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. This book was released on 2017-10-10 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A story of faith and fraud in post–Civil War America, told through the lens of a photographer who claimed he could capture images of the dead. In the early days of photography, in the death-strewn wake of the Civil War, one man seized America’s imagination. A “spirit photographer,” William Mumler took portrait photographs that featured the ghostly presence of a lost loved one alongside the living subject. Mumler was a sensation: The affluent and influential came calling, including Mary Todd Lincoln, who arrived at his studio in disguise amidst rumors of séances in the White House. Peter Manseau brilliantly captures a nation wracked with grief and hungry for proof of the existence of ghosts and for contact with their dead husbands and sons. It took a circus-like trial of Mumler on fraud charges, starring P. T. Barnum for the prosecution, to expose a fault line of doubt and manipulation. And even then, the judge sided with the defense, suggesting no one would ever solve the mystery of his spirit photography. This forgotten puzzle offers a vivid snapshot of America at a crossroads in its history, a nation in thrall to new technology while clinging desperately to belief. An NPR Best Book of 2017 “A rare work of historical nonfiction that is both studious and just plain entertaining.”—Publishers Weekly, Top Ten Books of 2017 “An exceptional story.”—Errol Morris, New York Times Book Review “Manseau has become the foremost chronicler of the deep American desire to believe in the weird, the strange, and the oddly wonderful.”—Jeff Sharlet, New York Times–bestselling author of The Family: The Secret Fundamentalism at the Heart of American Power
Download or read book Spirit Into Matter written by Julian Cox and published by Getty Publications. This book was released on 2004 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Issued in conjunction with exhibition at the J. Paul Getty Museum, June 15 - September 26, 2004.
Book Synopsis The case for spirit photography by : Arthur Conan Doyle
Download or read book The case for spirit photography written by Arthur Conan Doyle and published by . This book was released on 1920 with total page 110 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Case for Spirit Photography by : Arthur Conan Doyle
Download or read book The Case for Spirit Photography written by Arthur Conan Doyle and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2017-05-24 with total page 152 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The Case for Spirit Photography: With Corroborative Evidence by Experienced Researchers and Photographers The publicity given to the recent attacks on Psychic Photography has been out of all proportion to their scientific value as evidence. When Sir Arthur Conan Doyle returned to Great Britain, after his successful tour in America, the controversy was in full swing. With characteristic promptitude he immediately decided to meet these negative attacks by a positive counter-attack, and this volume is the outcome of that decision. We have used the term Spirit Photography on the title-page as being the popular name by which these phenomena are known. This does not imply that either Sir Arthur or I imagine that everything supernormal must be of spirit origin. There is, undoubtedly, a broad borderland where these photographic effects may be produced from forces contained within ourselves. This merges into those higher phenomena of which many cases are here described. Those desiring fuller information on this subject are referred to Photo graphing the Invisible, by James Coates. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Book Synopsis Photography and Spirit by : John Harvey
Download or read book Photography and Spirit written by John Harvey and published by Reaktion Books. This book was released on 2007 with total page 186 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Photography and spirit examines images of phantoms, psychical emanations, and religious apparitions.
Book Synopsis The Case for Spirit Photography by : Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
Download or read book The Case for Spirit Photography written by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle and published by . This book was released on 2020-10-17 with total page 116 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An accusation of a damaging, and, as I believe, of an entirely unfounded character, has been brought forward by Mr. Harry Price against Mr. Hope, whose name has for more than seventeen years been associated with the strange phenomenon which has been called spirit photography. I will deal later with this accusation with which the Society for Psychic Research has unfortunately associated itself by publishing the report of it in their official journal. Before touching upon it I should wish to take a broader sweep and to show the overpowering weight of evidence which exists as to the reality of Mr. Hope's most remarkable gift.
Book Synopsis Night Photography by : Gabriel Biderman
Download or read book Night Photography written by Gabriel Biderman and published by Peachpit Press. This book was released on 2013-11-13 with total page 241 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Are you a night owl looking to make stunning images of streetscapes, fireworks, or the night sky? Do you like to bend time with long exposure photography? Do star trails or lightning strikes inspire you? Then this book is for you! In Night Photography: From Snapshots to Great Shots, photographer Gabriel Biderman brings you the basics of digital night photography—exposure, composition, and light—and how to scout and capture different nocturnal locations once the sun goes down. Gabriel will help you understand the fundamentals and bring your unique artistic expression to any night situation. In this beautifully illustrated guide you will: Focus in the dark and master basic composition rules—and know when to break them Understand metering and switch to manual mode for more control over your exposure Set white balance, understand color temperature, and add flash or slow sync Explore color, light painting, and creative ways to play with light in your images Learn what gear works best for your style of shooting and strategies for operating your equipment in the dark Discover expert techniques for post-processing your nighttime images in Lightroom and Photoshop Beautifully illustrated with large, compelling photos, this book teaches you how to take control of your photography to get the image you want every time. And once you have the shot, show it off and join the book’s Flickr group: www.flickr.com/groups/night_fromsnapshotstogreatshots
Book Synopsis The Case For Spirit Photography by : Arthurt Conan Doyle
Download or read book The Case For Spirit Photography written by Arthurt Conan Doyle and published by . This book was released on 2020-05-03 with total page 148 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This copy features a cover by Pat AulisioNoted spiritualist Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, of Sherlock Holmes fame, argues in this book for connection with spirits through photography and offers evidence in the form of pictures with various spirits present. Conan Doyle was driven to publish this book after noted spirit photographer William Hope was proved to be a fraud. Published in 1922, the book in its original edition is now rare and considered an important piece of history to those interested in the supernatural.
