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Photography > Spirit photography

Preferred term

Spirit photography  

Definition

  • Photographs that purport to be visual records of ectoplasmic or other manifestations of persons in a state of existence equivalent to or beyond death; or which purport to show energy fields ("auras"), energy or personality extensions ("astral projections"); pre- or postcognitive mental images; or various other supranormal visual manifestations [ICPEncyc]

Broader concept

Entry terms

  • Psychic photography
  • Spirit photographs

Notation

  • 118223

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URI

http://data.loterre.fr/ark:/67375/JLC-F9J0PL9N-5

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