An Evidential Case Of Spirit Photography

Author : Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
Publisher : Graphic Arts Books
Page : 105 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2020-09-22
Category : Photography
ISBN : 9781513265469

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”Doyle’s modesty of language conceals a profound tolerance of the human complexity”-John Le Carré “Every Writer owes something to Holmes.” -T.S. Eliot While the controversy of Psychic Photography was gripping the early 20th Century United Kingdom, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle set out to investigate the most notable cases. In The Case for Spirit Photography, he aimed to defend the validity of capturing images of spirits with a camera. The spectacle of spirit photography had become popular in the late 19th Century, but by the 1920’s The Crewe Circle, an infamous English spiritualist group had become the center of a national controversy attacking spirit photography as a hoax. Doyle, a leader of the Spiritualist movement, wrote this investigation in defense of the group, and conjointly looks at other cases of supernatural incidences. As we face current public figures dismissive of empirical scientific evidence, this is a fascinating look at the intrigue of conviction. As the writer of one of fictions most colorful and abiding detectives, Doyle’s deductions in The Case for Spirit Photography are enthralling. With an eye-catching new cover, and professionally typeset manuscript, this edition of The Case is both modern and readable.

Author : Arthur Conan Doyle
Publisher : Forgotten Books
Page : 152 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2017-05-24
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0282008241

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The Case for Spirit Photography by Arthur Conan Doyle Pdf

Excerpt from The Case for Spirit Photography: With Corroborative Evidence by Experienced Researchers and Photographers The publicity given to the recent attacks on Psychic Photography has been out of all proportion to their scientific value as evidence. When Sir Arthur Conan Doyle returned to Great Britain, after his successful tour in America, the controversy was in full swing. With characteristic promptitude he immediately decided to meet these negative attacks by a positive counter-attack, and this volume is the outcome of that decision. We have used the term Spirit Photography on the title-page as being the popular name by which these phenomena are known. This does not imply that either Sir Arthur or I imagine that everything supernormal must be of spirit origin. There is, undoubtedly, a broad borderland where these photographic effects may be produced from forces contained within ourselves. This merges into those higher phenomena of which many cases are here described. Those desiring fuller information on this subject are referred to Photo graphing the Invisible, by James Coates. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Author : Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 116 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2020-10-17
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9798696320694

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The Case for Spirit Photography by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle Pdf

An accusation of a damaging, and, as I believe, of an entirely unfounded character, has been brought forward by Mr. Harry Price against Mr. Hope, whose name has for more than seventeen years been associated with the strange phenomenon which has been called spirit photography. I will deal later with this accusation with which the Society for Psychic Research has unfortunately associated itself by publishing the report of it in their official journal. Before touching upon it I should wish to take a broader sweep and to show the overpowering weight of evidence which exists as to the reality of Mr. Hope's most remarkable gift.

Author : ARTHUR CONAN. DOYLE
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2018
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1033015539

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CASE FOR SPIRIT PHOTOGRAPHY by ARTHUR CONAN. DOYLE Pdf

Author : Allerton Seward Cushman
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 38 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 1922
Category : Spirit photography
ISBN : STANFORD:36105004960931

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An Evidential Case of Spirit Photography ... by Allerton Seward Cushman Pdf

Author : Arthurt Conan Doyle
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 148 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2020-05-03
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9798642774953

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The Case For Spirit Photography by Arthurt Conan Doyle Pdf

This copy features a cover by Pat AulisioNoted spiritualist Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, of Sherlock Holmes fame, argues in this book for connection with spirits through photography and offers evidence in the form of pictures with various spirits present. Conan Doyle was driven to publish this book after noted spirit photographer William Hope was proved to be a fraud. Published in 1922, the book in its original edition is now rare and considered an important piece of history to those interested in the supernatural.

Author : Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2024-05-14
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
ISBN : 9798986476087

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The Case For Spirit Photography by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle Pdf

"Can the camera show us those who have passed on? Yes!" Arthur Conan Doyle said upon publishing The Case For Spirit Photography in 1923. The book offers a thorough account of his own experiences with spirit photography and those of others. The first spirit photographer, William Mumler, began working in Boston in 1861. Faint figures believed to be lost loved ones appeared in photos behind those sitting in front of the camera. Over the years, Mumler took thousands of spirit photographs, including one of Mary Todd Lincoln showing the assassinated president behind her. P.T. Barnum, always one to enjoy a good humbug, was intrigued as well and displayed several Mumler photographs in his American Museum. But with growing success came more skeptics. And eventually, some of them noticed that several spirits were actually people still living. By 1869, the police were on the case and claimed Mumler was swindling people out of their money. The spirit photographer went to court, supported by the Spiritualist community who maintained their belief that he was innocent and genuine. Mumler was exonerated when no one could prove he'd faked his photos. His legal troubles ultimately hurt his business, but spirit photography lived on through other mediums wielding otherworldly cameras. Doyle believed many of them to be genuine and often came to the defense of photographers accused of fraud. He had been one of Spiritualism's loudest and best-known evangelists in the early twentieth century. He, and its millions of followers, believed that we never die-we merely move on to another plane that could amazingly be captured on film. The author's good friend, Harry Houdini, spent many years exposing fraudulent mediums that capitalized on Spiritualism and people's willingness to believe that the dead could talk. One example was spirit photographer Alexander Martin of Denver, Colorado. Doyle told Houdini that he was "a very wonderful man in his particular line." So the magician paid him a visit, and once inside the studio he attempted to explore the dark room. After a few secretive photographic shenanigans, Martin shared some ghosts. Houdini concluded the photos were simply double exposures. "From a logical, rational point of view, Spirit photography is a most barefaced imposition and stands as evidence of the credulity of those who are in sympathy with the superstitions of occultism," he wrote in 1924's A Magician Among the Spirits. "It is also evidence of how unscrupulous mediums become and how calloused their consciences." Doyle clearly disagreed. Genuine or not, the stories presented within these pages are fascinating and a hundred years later the photos remain extraordinary. And they are faithfully reproduced as published in 1923.

Author : Arthur Conan Doyle
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 98 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2021-06-05
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
ISBN : 9354204570

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The Case For Spirit Photography by Arthur Conan Doyle Pdf

The Case For Spirit Photography: With Corroborative Evidence By Experienced Researchers And Photographers With Preface By Fred Barlow This book is a result of an effort made by us towards making a contribution to the preservation and repair of original classic literature. In an attempt to preserve, improve and recreate the original content, we have worked towards: 1. Type-setting & Reformatting: The complete work has been re-designed via professional layout, formatting and type-setting tools to re-create the same edition with rich typography, graphics, high quality images, and table elements, giving our readers the feel of holding a 'fresh and newly' reprinted and/or revised edition, as opposed to other scanned & printed (Optical Character Recognition - OCR) reproductions. 2. Correction of imperfections: As the work was re-created from the scratch, therefore, it was vetted to rectify certain conventional norms with regard to typographical mistakes, hyphenations, punctuations, blurred images, missing content/pages, and/or other related subject matters, upon our consideration. Every attempt was made to rectify the imperfections related to omitted constructs in the original edition via other references. However, a few of such imperfections which could not be rectified due to intentional\unintentional omission of content in the original edition, were inherited and preserved from the original work to maintain the authenticity and construct, relevant to the work. We believe that this work holds historical, cultural and/or intellectual importance in the literary works community, therefore despite the oddities, we accounted the work for print as a part of our continuing effort towards preservation of literary work and our contribution towards the development of the society as a whole, driven by our beliefs. We are grateful to our readers for putting their faith in us and accepting our imperfections with regard to preservation of the historical content. HAPPY READING!

Author : C. Vincent Patrick,W. Whately Smith
Publisher : DigiCat
Page : 67 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2022-07-21
Category : Psychology
ISBN : EAN:8596547094746

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The Case Against Spirit Photographs by C. Vincent Patrick,W. Whately Smith Pdf

"The Case Against Spirit Photographs" by Vincent Patrick and Walter Whately Smith tapped into the fascination of spirits and ghosts that permeated society during the 20th century. Since this eagerness to believe in ghosts still exists over a century later, reading early texts debunking their existence is an insightful and entertaining experience that modern readers will love.

Author : Jule Eisenbud
Publisher : Cosimo, Inc.
Page : 30 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2016-05-01
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
ISBN : 9781944529192

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Psychic Photography and Thoughtography by Jule Eisenbud Pdf

Since 1861, more than two dozen persons in several countries have claimed to obtain on photographic plates and film a variety of types of images that could only have been produced paranormally. This essay, chapter 13 of Psychic Exploration, delves into psychic photography and thoughtography. The full volume of Psychic Exploration can be purchased as an ebook or paperback version from all major online retailers and at cosimobooks.com.

Author : Edgar D. Mitchell
Publisher : Cosimo, Inc.
Page : 946 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2011-07-01
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
ISBN : 9781616405472

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Psychic Exploration by Edgar D. Mitchell Pdf

Psychic Exploration, A Challenge for Science is a primer on psychic research, life's purpose, and the meaning of the universe. Originally published in 1974, this landmark anthology of nearly thirty chapters on every area of psychic research is finally available again. Edgar D. Mitchell, Apollo 14 astronaut and moonwalker, as well as a distinguished researcher of the study of human consciousness, brought together eminent scientists to write about issues once considered too controversial to discuss. This book includes fascinating chapters on the history of parapsychology, telepathy, hauntings, psychic phenomena, and consciousness, along with an extensive glossary and index. This timeless anthology continues to be appealing as a reference work for those curious about the history of parapsychology, fans of the world of psi, and readers interested in the meaning of the universe. Contributors include: Willis W. Harman, Jean Houston, Stanley Krippner, Robert Masters, William G. Roll, Russell Targ, Charles T. Tart, Montague Ullman, and many more.

Author : Louis Kaplan
Publisher : U of Minnesota Press
Page : 305 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Photography
ISBN : 9780816651566

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The Strange Case of William Mumler, Spirit Photographer by Louis Kaplan Pdf

In the 1860s, William Mumler photographed ghostsa or so he claimed. Faint images of the dearly departed lurked in the background with the living, like his well-known photo of the recently assassinated Abraham Lincoln comforting Mary Todd. The practice came to be known as spirit photography, and some believed Mumler was channeling the dead. Skeptics, however, called it a fraudulent trick on the gullible, taking advantage of the grieving at a time of suffering and loss. Mumlera s insistence that his work brought back the dead led to a sensational trial in 1869 that was the talk of the nation.

Author : Charles Richet
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
Page : 670 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2017-04-20
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9789925066896

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Thirty Years of Psychical Research by Charles Richet Pdf

Reprint of the original, first published in 1923.

Author : John Traill Taylor
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 194 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 1894
Category : Spirit photography
ISBN : STANFORD:36105010228000

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The Veil Lifted. Modern Developments of Spirit Photography by John Traill Taylor Pdf

Author : Simone Natale
Publisher : Penn State Press
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2016-03-31
Category : History
ISBN : 9780271077376

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Supernatural Entertainments by Simone Natale Pdf

In Supernatural Entertainments, Simone Natale vividly depicts spiritualism’s rise as a religious and cultural phenomenon and explores its strong connection to the growth of the media entertainment industry in the nineteenth century. He frames the spiritualist movement as part of a new commodity culture that changed how public entertainments were produced and consumed. Starting with the story of the Fox sisters, considered the first spiritualist mediums in history, Natale follows the trajectory of spiritualism in Great Britain and the United States from its foundation in 1848 to the beginning of the twentieth century. He demonstrates that spiritualist mediums and leaders adopted many of the promotional strategies and spectacular techniques that were being developed for the broader entertainment industry. Spiritualist mediums were indistinguishable from other professional performers, as they had managers and agents, advertised in the press, and used spectacularism to draw audiences. Addressing the overlap between spiritualism’s explosion and nineteenth-century show business, Natale provides an archaeology of how the supernatural became a powerful force in the media and popular culture of today.