Spirit Photography

05/05/21 • 20 min

Ghost photos explained!
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Overhead forest photo by Spencer Watson via Unsplash.
Book spine photo by Annie Spratt via Unsplash.
Music: "Wonderland" by Alexander Nakarada (www.serpentsoundstudios.com)
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Bell, Bethan. "Taken from Life: The Unsettling Art of Death Photography." BBC News. June 5, 2016. Accessed May 2, 2021. https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-36389581

"Camera Obscura." Science World. Accessed May 2, 2021. https://www.scienceworld.ca/resource/camera-obscura/

Doyle, Arthur Conan and Fred Barlow. The Case for Spirit Photography. United Kingdom: George H. Doran Company, 1923.

"In Focus: The Evolution of the Personal Camera." Digital Public Library of America. Accessed May 2, 2021. https://dp.la/exhibitions/evolution-personal-camera/early-photography

McKenzie, James Hewat. Spirit Intercourse: Its Theory and Practice. United Kingdom: M. Kennerley, 1917.

Thomas, Chris. "How Smartphone Cameras Work - Gary Explains." Android Authority. May 8, 2017. Accessed May 2, 2021. https://www.androidauthority.com/smartphone-cameras-explained-767029/

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The surprisingly strange origins of these quirky statues!
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Overhead forest photo by Spencer Watson via Unsplash.
Book spine photo by Annie Spratt via Unsplash.
Music: "Wonderland" by Alexander Nakarada (www.serpentsoundstudios.com)
Licensed under Creative Commons BY Attribution 4.0 License
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Overhead forest photo by Spencer Watson via Unsplash.
Book spine photo by Annie Spratt via Unsplash.
Music: "Wonderland" by Alexander Nakarada (www.serpentsoundstudios.com)
Licensed under Creative Commons BY Attribution 4.0 License
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Scholar Minor - Spirit Photography

Transcript

"Before anyone can hope to secure spirit photographs with regularity, conditions must first be provided. This not only needs an operator with some skill upon the spirit side of life who understands the laws governing the phenomena, but requires some considerable practice on their part with a medium, before they succeed in manipulating the psychic forces. It also requires one with mediumistic qualities to supply from his body that refined psychic essence in which a spirit is able, temporarily,