FAH101H1 Study Guide - Photographic Plate, Star Chart, Spiritualism
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Desire to use photography to attempt to show existence of world beyond vision of another world. Same technique applied with hope of making photographs of though obtained in similar way subject was suppose to image portrait of beethoven whose face should be in square. R. luis darget, photograph of dream: the eagle (1896) Photographic form looks a bit like an eagle. Conducted series of experiments take photos to paper strap to forehead of scientific subjects through osmosis their dreams would seep out and take representational form onto the surface. Shared fiction btw experimenter and subject negotiate in unspoken ways things that are suppose to be represented in image. Darget, photography of thought: planet and satelite (1896) Bridge images that are both scientific and fundamentally interested in things that cannot be empirically recorded. Hippolyte baraduc, photograph of the fluidic nimbus of a medium"s thumb (1893)
