Walker Reader Article series summary:
Since the inception of photography in the 1800s, people have tried to photograph things they couldn’t see—ghosts, dreams, prayers, sickness, sin, psychic powers, and even the human soul. However, this integral part of photographic history has often been hidden and obscured.
Exploring the relationship between photography, spiritualism, science, art, and belief, the series Photography and the Invisible, organized by author and photographer Shannon Taggart, traces image-making’s relationship with visible and invisible worlds.
(Source: Walker Art Center)
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Photographs are strange—and it is easy to forget this, given their omnipresence in modern life. They bring the past into the present, like a haunting. Photography is a death-defying feat, a form of time travel. Among its uncanny features, practitioners note a form of telepathy called “the photographer’s eye,” which allows masters of the medium to communicate their thoughts without words.
