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Haunted Air
Engelsk Hardback
Haunted Air
Engelsk Hardback

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A collection of anonymous Hallowe''en Photographs from America, c.1875 - 1955

The roots of Hallowe''en lie in the ancient pre-Christian Celtic festival of Samhain, a feast to mark the death of the old year and the birth of the new. It was believed that on this night the veil separating the worlds of the living and the dead grew thin and ruptured, allowing spirits to pass through and walk unseen but not unheard amongst men. The advent of Christianity saw the pagan festival subsumed in All Souls'' Day, when across Europe the dead were mourned and venerated. Children and the poor, often masked or in outlandish costume, wandered the night begging ''soul cakes'' in exchange for prayers, and fires burned to keep malevolent phantoms at bay.

The photographs in Haunted Air provide an extraordinary glimpse into the traditions of this macabre festival from ages past, and form an important document of photographic history. These are the pictures of the dead: family portraits, mementos of the treasured, now unrecognisable, other. Torn from album pages, sold piecemeal for pennies and scattered, abandoned to melancholy chance and the hands of strangers.

Product detaljer
Sprog:
Engelsk
Sider:
216
ISBN-13:
9781787334243
Indbinding:
Hardback
Udgave:
ISBN-10:
1787334244
Udg. Dato:
27 jun 2022
Længde:
25mm
Bredde:
227mm
Højde:
203mm
Forlag:
Vintage Publishing
Oplagsdato:
27 jun 2022
Forfatter(e):
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