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Who enjoyed the privilege of a sitting with this artist not long ago tells me that when he went to focus the…

Date of account: Published 1923
Source: The Case Against Spirit Photographs
Reference: The Case Against Spirit Photographs · selected passage 83
Rights: public_domain
Language: English
Record updated: 2026-08-24

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who enjoyed the privilege of a sitting with this artist not long ago tells me that when he went to focus the camera (as one is frequently invited to do), he clearly saw a wholly gratuitous face already projected on the ground-glass! Now either there was some kind of an objective apparition present in the camera’s field of view which reflected light which only became visible after passing through the lens (which is absurd), or there was a transparency of some kind between the lens and the ground-glass. Of course it _may_ have been a psychic transparency born before its time--one cannot possibly say definitely that it was not, but the more mundane inference seems very much the more probable.

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