Giacomo Brogi - Luminous-Lint Photograph of the Day

Giacomo Brogi
Milano, Galleria Vittorio Emanuele
1870 (ca)

Albumen print from glass plate negative
25 x 19 cm (image)

Private Collection of Robert G. Hill, Toronto, Ont.
www.hillcollection.com - Acc: 584

LL/30607

Anon. - Luminous-Lint Photograph of the Day

Anon.
[Men on telegraph pole]
1905-1915 (ca)

Real photo postcard
Private collection of Brian Smolens

LL/30544

Norman McBeath - Luminous-Lint Photograph of the Day

Norman McBeath
By the Sheldonian, Oxford
[City Stories]
1997

Gelatin silver print, fibre base, selenium toned
25 x 17 cm

Provided by the artist - Norman McBeath

LL/30906

Nickolas Muray - Luminous-Lint Photograph of the Day

Nickolas Muray
Camel Cigarettes, 3 in Red
1931

Color print, assembly (Carbro) process
George Eastman House: International Museum of Photography and Film
© Nickolas Muray Photo Archives, Courtesy of George Eastman House, Gift of Mrs. Nickolas Muray (71:0034:0022)

LL/30800

Arthur Rickerby - Luminous-LInt Photograph of the Day

Arthur Rickerby
Mickey Mantle #7 of the New York Yankees addresses the media after a MLB game in the Bronx, New York in 1961
1961

Gelatin silver print
11 x 14 in

Madelyn Jordon Fine Art

LL/30820

Anon. - Luminous-Lint Photograph of the Day

Anon.
[The Queen of Hearts]
1905-1915 (ca)

Real photo postcard
Private collection of Brian Smolens

LL/30528

Ghosts, apparitions, angels, spiritual visitations and views of the future

Anon.
The Ghost
1860s

Stereocard, detail
Stereoviews: Stereoviews and Fine 19th & 20th Century Antique Photographs
Courtesy of David Spahr (www.stereoviews.com)

LL/30160

There can be few photography books as enjoyable as The Perfect Medium: Photography and the Occult by Clement Cheroux, Pierre Apraxine, Andreas Fischer, Denis Canguilhem and Sophie Schmit (Yale University Press, 2004). It takes us into the merging of the real and spiritual worlds with photographs of séances with automatic writing, table-tilting, and ectoplasm excreted by mediums as a physical manifestation of a haunting. It is a story of photography, science, legal proceedings and downright fraud.

This online exhibition of mostly nineteenth century material takes us into the ghostly world of grieving children in church yards, hair raising incidents, protective angels and unexpected apparitions on lonely roads.

Thanks to everybody for providing examples and particularly to Kevin Yee for nudging me along.

There is an online exhibition on Luminous-Lint.