Plates of spirit photographs from Georgiana Houghton’s Chronicles of the Photographs of Spiritual Beings and Phenomena Invisible to the Material Eye (1882), many featuring the author herself. The photograph on Plate 1 in the second row and first column is captioned “Zilla Standing, with her hand in mine”.
Featured on PDR in the essay “The Substantiality of Spirit”: Georgiana Houghton’s Pictures from the Other Side
When Georgiana Houghton first exhibited her paintings at a London gallery in 1871, their wild eddies of colour and line were unlike anything the public had seen before — nor would see again until the rise of abstract art decades later. But there was little intentionally abstract about these images: Houghton painted entities she met in the spirit regions. Viewing her works through the prism of friendship, loss, and faith, Jennifer Higgie turns overdue attention on an artist neglected by historians, a visionary who believed that death was not the end, merely a new distance to overcome.
Spirit Photographs by Georgiana Houghton
Artist
Date
1882
From
Chronicles of the Photographs of Spiritual Beings and Phenomena Invisible to the Material Eye
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