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Trick or Treat: “Faces of the Living Dead” Resurfaced!
October 20, 2009
Halloween is right around the corner, which means treats for you from MBP! Today’s tasty morsel? A blast from the past and a back title (from 2006) worth resurfacing: Faces of the Living Dead: The Belief in Spirit Photography, by Martyn Jolly, Head of Photomedia at the Australian National University School of Art.
If you’re a history junkie or are fascinated by the concept of spiritualism or ghosts, this book will hit the spot, offering an examination of paranormal photography’s popularity during the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Tied to historical eras of war and destruction, spirit photography enjoyed wide acceptance, as laypeople and celebrities alike looked for answers and emotional connections unavailable to them in the temporal world.
Though still saturated with mind-blowing and seriously spooky black & white photography (some never before published from the British Library archives), this book is rich with information and intruiging stories, citing the suggestively fradulent nature of the time period’s “spirit photography” and why it even existed.
Want more Faces? Click here to check out the official MBP page, complete with photo spreads.
