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Séance by Shannon Taggart with foreword by Dan Akyroyd – Deluxe Leather Bound Limited Edition in Custom Solander Box with Bent Flatware

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Séance by Shannon Taggart with foreword by Dan Akyroyd – Deluxe Leather Bound Limited Edition in Custom Solander Box with Bent Flatware

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One of only 77 signed and hand numbered copies.

– Crushed full black morocco, bevelled edges, all edges gilt
– With a hand-printed photograph, numbered and signed by the author
– A unique piece of flatware, psychically bend at Lily Dale, with certificate
– In custom hand-made silk-cloth solander box

NOTE: Shipping is higher on this book due to the size and weight of this book. It is very large and heavy.

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American artist Shannon Taggart became aware of Spiritualism as a teenager, when her cousin received a message from a medium that revealed details about her grandfather’s death. In 2001, while working as a photographer, she began taking pictures where that message was received – Lily Dale, New York, home to the world’s largest Spiritualist community – proceeding to other such communities as England’s Arthur Findlay College. Taggart expected to spend one summer figuring out the tricks of the Spiritualist trade. Instead, Spiritualism’s mysterious processes, earnest practitioners, and neglected photographic history became an inspiration. Her project evolved into an eighteen-year journey that has taken her around the world in search of ‘ectoplasm’ – the elusive substance that is said to be both spiritual and material.

With SÉANCE – part documentary, part ghost story – Taggart offers us haunting images exploring Spiritualist practices in the US, England and Europe: 150 of her original photographs, many of which have never been published, as well as rare historical photographs. Supported with a commentary on her experiences, a foreword by Dan Aykroyd, creator of Ghostbusters (1984) and fourth-generation Spiritualist, and illustrated essays from curator Andreas Fischer and artist Tony Oursler, SÉANCE examines Spiritualism’s relationship with human celebrity, its connections to art, science, and technology, and its intrinsic bond with the medium of photography. The book concludes with the debate over ectoplasm and how Spiritualism can move forward in the twenty-first century.

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