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This book will fascinate readers with its photographs of spirit contact and spirit presence. If you want to look at ghosts on film, these 80 illustrations will more than satisfy your interest . . . This is a journey through the surreal, an active and in-depth examination of the numerous myths and cultural history surrounding spirit photography. . . . For the general reader, those interested in the paranormal, or the experienced ghost hunter, this is an ideal book to have in the home library. . . . Literate, well-written, and highly entertaining are the three words to best describe this book by John Harvey. Highly recommended! - Lee Prosser, Ghostvillage.com -- Lee Prosser GhostVillage.com (12/05/2007)

economical and intriguing ... Harvey restores the full sense of 'spirit' in nineteenth-century science, religion and aesthetics, while charting spirit photography's persistence well into the twentieth century ... a fascinating addition to the literature on delusional aesthetics. Art Review judicious, sympathetic and richly illustrated -- Marina Warner Art Newspaper Harvey has done an excellent job in outlining how the three domains fed into the phenomenon of spirit photography, and how its fascination endures. Fortean Times John Harvey's new work finds the emerging medium of photography in the second half of the nineteenth century provides a source for thinking through the visualization of the holy ... wonderfully illustrated, and it is refreshing for scholars of religion to find a press like Reaktion Books that is not normally publishing in religious studies, yet taking topics in religion seriously, and provide a visual forum for the display of images. Journal of the American Academy of Religion This book will fascinate readers with its photographs of spirit contact and spirit presence. If you want to look at ghosts on film, these 80 illustrations will more than satisfy your interest ... Literate, well-written, and highly entertaining are the three words to best describe this book by John Harvey. Highly recommended! -- Lee Prosser

economical and intriguing ... Harvey restores the full sense of spirit in nineteenth-century science, religion and aesthetics, while charting spirit photographys persistence well into the twentieth century . . . a fascinating addition to the literature on delusional aesthetics. * <i>Art Review</i> * judicious, sympathetic and richly illustrated * Marina Warner, <i>Art Newspaper</i> * Harvey has done an excellent job in outlining how the three domains fed into the phenomenon of spirit photography, and how its fascination endures.' * <i>Fortean Times</i> * [John Harveys] new work finds the emerging medium of photography in the second half of the nineteenth century provides a source for thinking through the visualization of the holy . . . wonderfully illustrated, and it is refreshing for scholars of religion to find a press like Reaktion Books that is not normally publishing in religious studies, yet taking topics in religion seriously, and provide a visual forum for the display of images. * <i>Journal of the American Academy of Religion</i> * This book will fascinate readers with its photographs of spirit contact and spirit presence. If you want to look at ghosts on film, these 80 illustrations will more than satisfy your interest . . . Literate, well-written, and highly entertaining are the three words to best describe this book by John Harvey. Highly recommended! * Lee Prosser, Ghostvillage.com *

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John Harvey is Professor at the School of Art at the University of Wales, Aberystwyth.

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