Spectral Portraits Posted on September 9, 2005 by Gardo Whoa. Didn’t Bryan Alexander blog about this recently? Or did I dream he did? Related
Good catch, my friend. Spirit snaps are fine examples of the haunted media tendency. The theme migrated to film, not long after. Bloggery ensues: http://infocult.typepad.com/infocult/2005/09/haunted_photogr.html
I’m really struck by the way in which the old photographs already seem spectral, given their age and appearance. To have a materialization inside a century-old sepia-toned photo is to see a kind of metaplasmic dual apparition.
Good catch, my friend. Spirit snaps are fine examples of the haunted media tendency. The theme migrated to film, not long after.
Bloggery ensues:
http://infocult.typepad.com/infocult/2005/09/haunted_photogr.html
I’m really struck by the way in which the old photographs already seem spectral, given their age and appearance. To have a materialization inside a century-old sepia-toned photo is to see a kind of metaplasmic dual apparition.