Haunted Technologies
Personally, I found this lecture really intriguing and felt like it relating a lot with my practice. It discussed a lot about the early history of spirit photography and the scientific factor behind it. Spiritualism started as a 19th century religious movement where people would believe that the spirits of dead could be contacted directly by the living. The year 1861 was the first recorded print of spirit photography. William Mumler captured a self-portrait where a ghost of his deceased cousin had developed in the background. Spirit photography of today differs from the history of spiritualism due to the fact that the past photography had damaged the reputation of the existence of spirit photography as it was always seen as fraud. This has been proving difficult for ghosts hunters and artists/photographers to be taken seriously.
18/10/19