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Phenomena of materialisation : a contribution to the investigation of mediumistic teleplastics / by Baron von Schrenck Notzing ; translated by E.E. Fournier d'Albe.

Albert von Schrenck-Notzing, Edmund Edward Fournier d'Albe · 1923 · London : Kegan Paul, Trench, Trubner, 1923. · 145 pictures

A 1923 London translation by E.E. Fournier d'Albe of Albert von Schrenck-Notzing's study of spiritualist materialisation seances, published by Kegan Paul, Trench, Trubner for a readership interested in psychical research. Its photographs are dark, grainy halftones of draped figures, pale ghostly forms, and hands emerging from shadow, offering a designer studies in low-key lighting, veiled shapes, and eerie chiaroscuro.

Spiritualism

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