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Department of Art & Archaeology Princeton University

7 & 8 October, 2005

Photography and Invisibility

Sunday at the Metropolitan Museum of Art: October 9, 2005

The Perfect Medium: Photography and the Occult 11:00 am Telegrams from the Dead (1994), directed by Matthew Collins. Documentary film examining the spiritualist movement in the United States from 1850 to 1890. (57 min.) 3:00 pm Photography and the Occult: A Panel Discussion. Pierre Apraxine, former curator of the Gilman Paper Company Collection; Clément Chéroux, fellow, French Academy in Rome; Andreas Fischer, curator, Institut für Grenzgebiete der Psychologie, Freiburg; Sophie Schmit, curator, art critic, and restorer, Paris. Moderated by Mia Fineman, senior research associate, Photographs, MMA. Both events will take place in the Grace Rainey Rogers Auditorium. No tickets are required.

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Friday, October 7, 2005

12:00-1:00 pm REGISTRATION

1:00 pm Welcome and Introduction Anne McCauley Princeton University

1:15 pm Perfecting ‘The Perfect Medium’: An Introduction to the Exhibition Pierre Apraxine Gilman Paper Company Collection

2:00 pm Visual Incapacities in the Early Nineteenth Century Jonathan Crary Columbia University

3:00 pm COFFEE BREAK

3:15 pm Blow-Up: Microphotography and the ‘Optical Unconscious’ Peter Geimer Institute for Science Studies/ ETH, Zurich

4:15 pm Hands-on Photography: Heat, Sweat, and the Absence of Light Carol Armstrong Princeton University

5:30-6:30 pm RECEPTION Friend Center

Saturday, October 8, 2005

8:30-9:30 am LATE REGISTRATION & COFFEE

9:30 am Specters of Photography: Gustave Le Bon, Science or Glory André Gunthert École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales, Paris

10:30 am Invisible and Ubiquitous: The Ether, Photography, and Art in the Early Twentieth Century Linda Henderson University of Texas at Austin

11:30 am Bragaglia, the Occult, and its Invisible Marta Braun Ryerson Polytechnic University, Toronto

12:30-1:30 pm LUNCH

1:30 pm Photographs of Fluids around 1900 Clément Chéroux French Academy in Rome

3:30 pm COFFEE BREAK

3:45 pm Arthur Conan Doyle and the Case of the Cottingley Fairy Photographs Alexandra Owen Northwestern University

4:45 pm Fixing the Invisible Image: Discourses of Transparency and Reflection from Pepper’s Ghosts to Cinema Specters Tom Gunning University of Chicago

Conclusion

6:00-7:00 pm RECEPTION Friend Center

2:30 pm Photography as a Link between Art, Hypnosis and Mediumship: The Work of Albert von Schrenck-Notzing (1862-1929) Andreas Fischer Institut für Grenzgebiete der Psychologie und Psychohygiene, Freiberg

Dark Rooms: Photography and Invisibility A two-day symposium sponsored by the David A. Gardner '69 Magic Project and the Department of Art and Archaeology

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This symposium was organized by Anne McCauley, Department of Art and Archaeology, and coincides with the exhibition, The Perfect Medium: Photography and the Occult, held at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York from September 27-December 31, 2005.