Photographing Invisible Beings


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Photographing Invisible Beings by William T. Stead: In this thought-provoking work, William T. Stead delves into the realm of spiritualism and the idea of photographing invisible entities. Stead's exploration of psychic phenomena and the possibility of capturing otherworldly beings on camera provides readers with a unique perspective on the supernatural and the boundaries between the seen and unseen worlds. Key Aspects of the Book "Photographing Invisible Beings": Spiritualism and Psychic Phenomena: The book delves into the beliefs and practices of spiritualism, including attempts to document supernatural beings through photography. Metaphysical Inquiry: Stead's work invites readers to consider the existence of invisible entities and the potential connections between the material and spiritual planes. Paranormal Studies: "Photographing Invisible Beings" contributes to the broader discourse on paranormal research and the quest to understand the mysteries of the unseen world. William T. Stead was a British journalist, author, and spiritualist born in 1849. He was known for his pioneering work in investigative journalism and his interest in spiritualism and psychic phenomena. Stead's writings often combined his journalistic skills with his exploration of spiritual and metaphysical topics. His curiosity about the unknown and the supernatural continues to intrigue readers to this day.




Invisible


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Nonhuman Photography


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A new philosophy of photography that goes beyond humanist concepts to consider imaging practices from which the human is absent, as both subject and agent. Today, in the age of CCTV, drones, medical body scans, and satellite images, photography is increasingly decoupled from human agency and human vision. In Nonhuman Photography, Joanna Zylinska offers a new philosophy of photography, going beyond the human-centric view to consider imaging practices from which the human is absent. Zylinska argues further that even those images produced by humans, whether artists or amateurs, entail a nonhuman, mechanical element—that is, they involve the execution of technical and cultural algorithms that shape our image-making devices as well as our viewing practices. At the same time, she notes, photography is increasingly mobilized to document the precariousness of the human habitat and tasked with helping us imagine a better tomorrow. With its conjoined human-nonhuman agency and vision, Zylinska claims, photography functions as both a form of control and a life-shaping force. Zylinska explores the potential of photography for developing new modes of seeing and imagining, and presents images from her own photographic project, Active Perceptual Systems. She also examines the challenges posed by digitization to established notions of art, culture, and the media. In connecting biological extinction and technical obsolescence, and discussing the parallels between photography and fossilization, she proposes to understand photography as a light-induced process of fossilization across media and across time scales.




The Magic of Light Painting


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Painting with light is magical. The flashlight is your brush and the scene is your canvas. Imagination and experimentation are your workflow. You control how long the beam strikes the subject, which angle it comes from, the color and softness of the light, and which part of the scene is illuminated. Few other forms of photography allow this level of creativity. Whether you’re shooting starry landscapes or urban architecture, pro photographer Tim Cooper will help you create and capture high-quality light painting images. In this detailed step-by-step guide you will: Understand how to focus and set your DSLR camera settings while working in the dark Learn how to calculate ambient exposure, ISO, f-stop, shutter speed, and white balance Discover light painting accessories and pro techniques for controlling the angle of light, intensity, beam width, and filtration Extend your night vision by preparing and processing your images in Adobe Lightroom and Photoshop, including blending multiple images




Hidden: Animals in the Anthropocene


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A collection of stunning images from some of the world's leading photographers of animals in the human environment. HIDDEN: Animals in the Anthropocene is an unflinching book of photography about our conflict with non-human animals around the globe. Through the lenses of thirty award-winning photojournalists, HIDDEN shines a light on the invisible animals in our lives: those with whom we have a close relationship and yet fail to see. The animals we eat and wear; the animals we use for research, work, and for entertainment; the animals we sacrifice in the name of tradition and religion. HIDDEN is a historical document, a memorial, and an indictment of what is and should never again be. Showcased by award-winning designer David Griffin, HIDDEN represents the work of thirty photojournalists who have documented--and continue to document--animal stories. Their exhaustive and in-depth work has resulted in some of the most compelling and historic images of animals ever seen. Among them are (in alphabetical order): Aaron Gekoski, Aitor Garmendia, Amy Jones, Andrew Skowron, Britta Jaschinski, Daniel Beltrá, Djurattsalliansen, Francesco Pistilli, Jan van Ijken, Joan de la Malla, Jo-Anne McArthur, Jose Valle, Kelly Guerin, Kristo Muurimaa, Konrad Lozinski, Louise Jorgensen, Luis Tato, Murdo MacLeod, Paul Hilton, Sabine Grootendorst, Selene Magnolia, Stefano Belacchi, Tamara Kenneally, and Timo Stammberger. "The photojournalists featured in Hidden have entered some of the darkest, most unsettling places in the world. The images they have captured are a searing reminder of our unpardonable behavior towards animals and will serve as beacons of change for years to come."--Joaquin Phoenix, actor "I am, quite simply, in awe of these photographers. In a way, they are like war photographers, except witness to a war that so many people choose to suppress that exists. This takes enormous inner strength and bloody-minded determination, because they cannot save any of the animals that they photograph; they can only hope that their photos will help illuminate the mass extermination that unfolds every second of every day across the planet. To me, they are heroes. Not just for one day, but over and over and over again."--Nick Brandt, photographer




The Case for Spirit Photography


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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.




Zen and the Magic of Photography


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Photographic equipment & techniques.




Invisible Man


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By the mid-1940s. Gordon Parks had cemented his reputation as a successful photojournalist and magazine photographer, and Ralph Ellison was an established author working on his first novel, Invisible Man (1952), which would go on to become one of the most acclaimed books of the twentieth century. Less well known, however, is that their vision of racial injustices, coupled with a shared belief in the communicative power of photography, inspired collaboration on two important projects, in 1948 and 1952. Capitalizing on the growing popularity of the picture press, Parks and Ellison first joined forces on an essay titled "Harlem Is Nowhere" for '48: The Magazine of the Year. Conceived while Ellison was already three years into writing Invisible Man, this illustrated essay was centered on the Lafargue Clinic, the first nonsegregated psychiatric clinic in New York City, as a case study for the social and economic conditions in Harlem. He chose Parks to create the accompanying photographs, and during the winter months of 1948, the two roamed the streets of Harlem together, with Parks photographing under the guidance of Ellison's writing. In 1952 they worked together again, on "A Man Becomes Invisible", for the August 25 issue of Life magazine, which promoted Ellison's newly released novel. Invisible Man: Gordon Parks and Ralph Ellison in Harlem focuses on these two projects, neither of which was published as originally intended, and provides an in-depth look at the authors' shared vision of black life in America, with Harlem as its nerve center.




The Blind Photographer


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The blind photographer cannot see a butterfly perched perfectly still on a flower, a bowl of sweet-smelling fruit, or a child's rattle on a darkened floor, but the mind's eye is sharply focused. How then, do blind or partially sighted people capture such extraordinary images? The photographs in this revelatory book suggest a deeper truth: that blindness is itself a kind of seeing, and that those who can see are often blind to the strangeness and beauty of the world around them. As the blind photographer Evgen Bavcar writes, "Photography must belong to the blind, who in their daily existence have learned to become the masters of camera obscura." Through the photographs of more than fifty blind or partially sighted people from around the world, this exhilarating book—the first to explore this phenomenon in all its vibrancy and diversity—will make you see differently.




Bucket List Books for the Halloween


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e-artnow presents to you this meticulously edited Halloween collection of the greatest horror, supernatural and gothic tales of all time:_x000D_ Washington Irving:_x000D_ The Legend of Sleepy Hollow_x000D_ Théophile Gautier:_x000D_ Clarimonde_x000D_ The Mummy's Foot_x000D_ Richard Marsh:_x000D_ The Beetle_x000D_ H. P. Lovecraft:_x000D_ The Case of Charles Dexter Ward _x000D_ At The Mountains of Madness_x000D_ The Colour out of Space_x000D_ The Whisperer in Darkness _x000D_ The Dunwich Horror_x000D_ The Shunned House…_x000D_ Mary Shelley:_x000D_ Frankenstein_x000D_ The Mortal Immortal _x000D_ The Evil Eye…_x000D_ John William Polidori:_x000D_ The Vampyre_x000D_ Edgar Allan Poe:_x000D_ The Tell-Tale Heart_x000D_ The Cask of Amontillado_x000D_ The Black Cat…_x000D_ Henry James:_x000D_ The Turn of the Screw_x000D_ The Ghostly Rental…_x000D_ Bram Stoker:_x000D_ Dracula_x000D_ The Jewel of Seven Stars_x000D_ The Lair of the White Worm…_x000D_ Algernon Blackwood:_x000D_ The Willows_x000D_ A Haunted Island_x000D_ A Case of Eavesdropping_x000D_ Ancient Sorceries…_x000D_ Gaston Leroux:_x000D_ The Phantom of the Opera_x000D_ Marjorie Bowen:_x000D_ Black Magic_x000D_ Charles Dickens:_x000D_ The Mystery of Edwin Drood_x000D_ Oscar Wilde:_x000D_ The Picture of Dorian Gray_x000D_ Arthur Conan Doyle:_x000D_ The Hound of the Baskervilles_x000D_ The Silver Hatchet…_x000D_ Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu:_x000D_ Carmilla_x000D_ Uncle Silas…_x000D_ M. R. James:_x000D_ Ghost Stories of an Antiquary_x000D_ A Thin Ghost and Others_x000D_ Wilkie Collins:_x000D_ The Woman in White_x000D_ The Haunted Hotel_x000D_ The Devil's Spectacles_x000D_ E. F. Benson:_x000D_ The Room in the Tower_x000D_ The Terror by Night…_x000D_ Nathaniel Hawthorne:_x000D_ The Birth Mark_x000D_ The House of the Seven Gables…_x000D_ Ambrose Bierce:_x000D_ Can Such Things Be?_x000D_ Present at a Hanging and Other Ghost Stories_x000D_ Arthur Machen:_x000D_ The Great God Pan_x000D_ The Terror…_x000D_ William Hope Hodgson:_x000D_ The House on the Borderland_x000D_ The Night Land_x000D_ M. P. Shiel:_x000D_ Shapes in the Fire_x000D_ Ralph Adams Cram:_x000D_ Black Spirits and White_x000D_ Grant Allen:_x000D_ The Reverend John Creedy _x000D_ Dr. Greatrex's Engagement…_x000D_ Horace Walpole:_x000D_ The Castle of Otranto_x000D_ William Thomas Beckford:_x000D_ Vathek_x000D_ Matthew Gregory Lewis:_x000D_ The Monk_x000D_ Ann Radcliffe:_x000D_ The Mysteries of Udolpho_x000D_ Jane Austen:_x000D_ Northanger Abbey_x000D_ Charlotte Brontë:_x000D_ Jane Eyre_x000D_ Emily Brontë:_x000D_ Wuthering Heights_x000D_ Rudyard Kipling:_x000D_ The Phantom Rickshaw_x000D_ Guy de Maupassant:_x000D_ The Horla_x000D_ Jerome K. Jerome:_x000D_ Told After Supper…