Mrs. Diogo and Mr. Feitosa scorging ectoplasm during a sitting at Uberaba, Brazil, 1962.
*** Offsite: in Lily Dale, NY
Date: Thursday, July 31, 2014
Time: 7:00 - 9:00 pm
Admission: $45
Presented by Shannon Taggart
Spiritualism and photography both emerged in the mid 19th-century and have been inextricably linked ever since. This workshop will be a visual exploration of the history of spirit photography. Topics of discussion will include photographic attempts to prove mesmerism, the subject of ectoplasm, and the history of instrumental transcommunication. We will also conduct two photography experiments, one with a Kirlian photography device and the other using water and light. Participants will receive copies of these experiments via email. Shannon Taggart’s Spiritualism images will also be shared throughout the presentation. Please feel free to bring your own anomalous photos for discussion
Shannon Taggart is a photographer based in Brooklyn and a member of Observatory. Her images have been featured internationally including the publications the New York Times Magazine, TIME and Newsweek. Her photographs have been shown at Photoworks in Brighton, England, The Photographic Resource Center in Boston, Redux Pictures in New York, the Stephen Cohen Gallery in Los Angeles and Gildar Gallery in Denver. Since 2001, she has been working on a photography project about Spiritualism, which was first inspired by a reading her cousin received in Lily Dale, NY.