two delicate silver hands grasp a churning portal.

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photo editing in the late 19th and early 20th century yielded incredible images of floating tables, disembodied heads, and gossamer ectoplasm billowing from the mouths and ears of Spiritualists mid-séance. These photos captivated people who hadn’t conceived that they could be illusions. its a funny human thing to make art, to try to catch smoke, to make images of unseen hands, to speak to the dead. “ectoplasm” frequently made of dressmakers netting or damp gauze, was used to trick people into thinking the photographer had captured the spirit entering or leaving the body of a medium.

images here are:

the Cottingley Fairies, by Elsie Wright and Frances Griffiths, taken in 1917 when they were 16 and 9 years old.

Mina “Margery” Crandon excretes “ectoplasm” from her ear at a séance in 1920

Craig and George Falconer 1931 ghost collage using wool + film cutout