Saturday, October 01, 2005
1912 - as the Titanic sank...This 1912 photograph released by the Metropolitan Museum of Art is titled "The Medium Eva C. with a Materialization on Her Head and a Luminous Apparition Between Her Hands," by Albert von Schrenck-Notzing. (AP Photo/Metropolitan Museum of Art, Albert von Schrenck-Notzing)
Just felt like it was appropriate - for The Luminous Blog!
We are history buffs here, after all...!
AND Masters of the Macabre too...!
Plus: we bask in the Light. :-)
See? With three criteria met, it means that this is more than appropriate!
Of course this is not what we would *normally* call a ''Luminous Apparition''...
But then again, it is anything but normal; it is all paranormal... in full bloom here!
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and also check out -as per usual- our luminous comments section!
Check the third comment in particular folks - for an announcement.
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An article courtesy of MSN Travel...
(... about an exhibit that will not travel... how odd... but I digress.)
Spooky! New York City exhibition looks at history of occult photography
28/09/2005 12:21:00 PM
NEW YORK (AP) - Ghostly, pale images of the dead hovering near those still living. Self-proclaimed mediums with streams of "ectoplasm" from the spirit world spewing from their mouths. Levitating tables.
Just in time for the spookiest part of the year, a new exhibition looks at how photography was used by those attempting to capture evidence of the paranormal. The Perfect Medium: Photography and the Occult opened Tuesday at the Metropolitan Museum of Art and runs through Dec. 31.
The exhibition features about 120 photographs from collections all over the world, and arrives in New York after a showing in Paris. Most of the images date from about the 1860s until the Second World War, a period when people were greatly interested in spiritualism and the paranormal. Using photography to document any images or incidents became a popular way of trying to get proof.
"When scientists started getting interested in this, they used photography as an investigative tool," said Mia Fineman, who co-ordinated the show for the Met. "Scientists would organize seances specifically for the purpose of being photographed. They really were going at this from a scientific perspective."
The show is divided into three sections. The first features images of "ghosts" or "spirits," while the second section has photographs about mediums and their seances. The third section looks at pictures of what people thought were the vital life forces emanating from human beings.
There's the photo from William Mumler, of Fanny Conant with the pale outline of a little native American girl by her side, taken toward the end of the 19th century. In the section on mediums, German photographer Albert Von Schrenck-Notzing took an image in 1912 of Eva C., when a strange object shaped like a slipper appeared on top of her head. And from March 1896, there are images taken when a hand was placed on a photographic plate, by Russian photographer Jacob Von Narkiewicz-Jodko.
The museum doesn't offer any opinions on whether the images in the photographs are real, but does provide historical information about some of the controversies, including how Mumler was acquitted of fraud charges in 1869. French spirit photographer Edouard Isidore Buguet wasn't so lucky. He was arrested for fraud in 1875 and during his trial, acknowledged faking his images using double exposures. He was convicted and sentenced to a year in prison.
The show also contains images from critics of spiritualists, such as illusionist Henri Robin. One photograph shows him in the grasp of a ghostly skeleton, an image he openly admitted creating through a double exposure of the film plate.
There are also images of the Cottingly Fairies, pictures taken in 1917 by young English girls of what they said were fairies. Sherlock Holmes creator Arthur Conan Doyle was taken in by the hoax, which wasn't revealed until about 60 years later when one of the photographers admitted that the images were just cardboard cutouts, propped up with hat pins and shot in ways that made them look like the girls were interacting with them.
The museum has scheduled a series of lectures, films and gallery talks to coincide with the exhibit. The show will not travel.
(... about an exhibit that will not travel... how odd... but I digress.)
Spooky! New York City exhibition looks at history of occult photography
28/09/2005 12:21:00 PM
NEW YORK (AP) - Ghostly, pale images of the dead hovering near those still living. Self-proclaimed mediums with streams of "ectoplasm" from the spirit world spewing from their mouths. Levitating tables.
Just in time for the spookiest part of the year, a new exhibition looks at how photography was used by those attempting to capture evidence of the paranormal. The Perfect Medium: Photography and the Occult opened Tuesday at the Metropolitan Museum of Art and runs through Dec. 31.
The exhibition features about 120 photographs from collections all over the world, and arrives in New York after a showing in Paris. Most of the images date from about the 1860s until the Second World War, a period when people were greatly interested in spiritualism and the paranormal. Using photography to document any images or incidents became a popular way of trying to get proof.
"When scientists started getting interested in this, they used photography as an investigative tool," said Mia Fineman, who co-ordinated the show for the Met. "Scientists would organize seances specifically for the purpose of being photographed. They really were going at this from a scientific perspective."
The show is divided into three sections. The first features images of "ghosts" or "spirits," while the second section has photographs about mediums and their seances. The third section looks at pictures of what people thought were the vital life forces emanating from human beings.
There's the photo from William Mumler, of Fanny Conant with the pale outline of a little native American girl by her side, taken toward the end of the 19th century. In the section on mediums, German photographer Albert Von Schrenck-Notzing took an image in 1912 of Eva C., when a strange object shaped like a slipper appeared on top of her head. And from March 1896, there are images taken when a hand was placed on a photographic plate, by Russian photographer Jacob Von Narkiewicz-Jodko.
The museum doesn't offer any opinions on whether the images in the photographs are real, but does provide historical information about some of the controversies, including how Mumler was acquitted of fraud charges in 1869. French spirit photographer Edouard Isidore Buguet wasn't so lucky. He was arrested for fraud in 1875 and during his trial, acknowledged faking his images using double exposures. He was convicted and sentenced to a year in prison.
The show also contains images from critics of spiritualists, such as illusionist Henri Robin. One photograph shows him in the grasp of a ghostly skeleton, an image he openly admitted creating through a double exposure of the film plate.
There are also images of the Cottingly Fairies, pictures taken in 1917 by young English girls of what they said were fairies. Sherlock Holmes creator Arthur Conan Doyle was taken in by the hoax, which wasn't revealed until about 60 years later when one of the photographers admitted that the images were just cardboard cutouts, propped up with hat pins and shot in ways that made them look like the girls were interacting with them.
The museum has scheduled a series of lectures, films and gallery talks to coincide with the exhibit. The show will not travel.
Good thing that the ghosts will remain in New York then...
And Fenway Park will not be haunted one bit this week-end...
As Yankee Stadium was not last October - when the Yanks choked the biggest choke in sports history and the Red Sox accomplished the greatest comeback in sports history!
:)
And Fenway Park will not be haunted one bit this week-end...
As Yankee Stadium was not last October - when the Yanks choked the biggest choke in sports history and the Red Sox accomplished the greatest comeback in sports history!
:)
I will be taking another break from blogging now - sorry readers... I am not feeling so good
Be back asap
God Bless
Be back asap
God Bless
Luciano,
That is a very interesting article and perfect for October.
I hate it when you don't feel good. I am praying for you to get better!
Get Well Soon!
God Bless You (\ô/)
((HUGS))
Countess
That is a very interesting article and perfect for October.
I hate it when you don't feel good. I am praying for you to get better!
Get Well Soon!
God Bless You (\ô/)
((HUGS))
Countess
Luciano,
I miss reading your blog. :(
I hope you are feeling better soon.
I look forward to when you start posting again. Let me know when you post again!
Thank You for your friendship :)
God Bless You (\ô/)
Countess
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I miss reading your blog. :(
I hope you are feeling better soon.
I look forward to when you start posting again. Let me know when you post again!
Thank You for your friendship :)
God Bless You (\ô/)
Countess
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