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Ghosts
‘Spectropia’: the surreal 19th-century method of conjuring demons and ghosts
Victorian debunking art dressed as occult magic.
The Victorian woman who drew pictures of ghosts
Georgiana Houghton (1862). Georgiana Houghton (1814–1884) claimed her artistic talent came from the dead. Houghton was a spiritualist, a medium and (apparently) a self-taught artist…
Ghosts, monstrous faces & strange creatures: The eerie beauty of bad vintage photographs
I spent my teens living in Edinburgh. At weekends, I avoided people, spent my time wandering around the city taking photographs of the expected fare:…
Ghosts in the machine: Occult fun with trick photography
It must be the season–the darkening days, the icy cold, and the fog drawn–here in Scotland at least–like net curtains that has led me to…