Ghost in the Machine: Photographs of Specters in the Nineteenth Century

Paola Cortés Rocca

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Abstract: "Spirit Photography" consists of photographs in which the sitter appears near to the shadowy image of a dead beloved. This essay examines the ways that this practice both reaffirms the early promise of immortality made by photography and presents the technological catastrophes of the twentieth century.

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