FEAR & WONDER
THE ARTS OF SPIRITUALISM
THE BUSINESS OF HORROR #21 S T C E N S P I R I T U A L I S M
by Jeffrey Pangputhipong
spiritualism Spiritualism is a belief that there is a life after death and that the spirits in the spirit world have the ability to communicate with the living. During the Civil War, death was everywhere. People were desperate to reconnect with thier deceased loved ones. Spiritualism was at its peak. Mediums became celebrities. ..and Spiritualism became a popular culture. Like Hollywood, but a little less ‘light’
TO HEAR
TO SEE
#YOUNGANDBEAUTIFUL
CORA SCOTT
She was one of the best-known mediums of the Spiritual movement in America. A contrast between her girliness and her eloquence fastinated everyone.
FE A R & WON D E R T h e A r t s
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The posing spirit
SPIRITUAL PHOTOGRAPHY Spiritual photography was the art of creating deliberate long double exposures that claimed to be spirits or ghosts. Invented during the rise of Spiritualism in 1861 by a jeweller William Mumler after his self-portrait developed t0 show his deceased cousin. Spiritual photography was somehow the ‘Sixth Sense’ of the 19th century.
FE A R & WON D E R T h e A r t s
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#Thewantedbag
CELINE
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#Thewantedbag
CHANEL
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#thescandalous
HELEN DUNCAN Known as the last person to be imprisoned under the British Witchcraft Act of 1735.
@sĂŠance is a meeting where people gathered to recieve message from the other world through mediums.
S É A N C E A SESSION WITH SPIRITS
TABLE TURNING
#Dior
Same process as Ouija board. Table-turning is a type of sĂŠance in which the audience would sit around an alphabets table and place their hands on it. The table would tilt at the appropriate letter, spelling out words and sentenses.
ECTOPLASM
THE SPIRIT ENERGY (Greek; Ekto - outside & Plasma - molded) A substance or a visible spirit energy, which exteriorized by mediums. Ectoplaswm can be formed only in darkness and when mediums were in a trance state. It often emit from the medium’s body.
F E AR & W O N DER T h e A r t s
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#famous
EVA C. Born - Marthe Béraud. (Yes, she is French) Before being Eva C - Marthe claimed to materialize a spirit called 'Bien Boa' , a 300 year old Brahmin Hindu. Well, the spirit of ‘Bien Boa’ that appeared in her séances was discovered to be a dressed up man. Miss Marthe changed her name to Eva Carrière (you can call her EVA C.) to hide the scandalous fraud from her past. Carrière’s séance specialty was the ectoplasm. Eva C was the first medium to perform the ectoplasm.
THE FOX SISTERS SISTERS BUSINESS
Leah, Margaret and Kate Fox
#altuzarra
THE ECCENTRIC
LE A FY AND E R S O N Known as Mother Leafy Anderson. Leafy was originated from the black Spiritual churches in New Orleans. L was a stylish woman. She often dressed lavishly. According to Jacobs and Kaslow - they described - ‘Expensive shoes, and lots.. of jewelry’ She even dressed for church services. Sometimes she would wear all white and other times, she would come to the service wearing a gold gown and accessoried it with a ‘Black Hawk’ (Leafy’s spirit-guide) mattle on her shoulders. #icon ..and she loved parties. Jazz parties.
SPIRIT-GUIDE Spirit guide is a term used by the Spiritualist churches to describe an entity that remains a disincarnate spirit in order to act as a guide and protector to a medium.
LE A F Y
AS
B L A C K H A WK
THE MASTER OF FACES
FLORENCE COOK
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FLORENCE COOK ‘KATIE KING’ AS
Ashen faced Kate King was the Kardashian of the spiritual world. Debuted herself as the spirit guide of the famous medium Florence Cook in the beginning of American Spiritualism. ..Spring or summer she was always in white.
FE A R & WON D E R T h e A r t s
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OUIJA #TALKINGTOY
Some say it is a toy, some say it is a messenger ... and some say it is a door.
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#FEARANDWONDER Cora Lodencia Veronica Scott @Cora_LV_Scott #YoungandBeautiful & #ThePosingSpirit Model : Julieta Capria Brcich / Styled and Photographed by Jeffrey Pangputhipong #FearandWonder Fear & Wonder @F_and_W #Psychicsenses, #SistersBusiness & #TableTurning - illustrated by Jeffrey Pangputhipong #FearandWonder #Illustrations Leafy Anderson @LeafyAndersonofficial #TheEccentric Model : Deedee Muntira Clayton / Styled and Photographed by Jeffrey Pangputhipong #FearandWonder Eva Carrière @Eva_C #Famous & #ASessionwithSpirits Model : Svala Leaman / Styled and Photographed by Jeffrey Pangputhipong #FearandWonder Fear & Wonder @F_and_W #Selfportraits & #TheSpiritEnergy Model : Jeffrey Pangputhipong / Styled by Jeffrey Pangputhipong #FearandWonder Victoria Helen McCrae Duncan @HDuncanMedium #TheScandalous Model : Melody Weitz Morandini / Styled and Photographed by Jeffrey Pangputhipong #FearandWonder Florence Cook @FlorenceCook #MasterofFaces Model : Isabella Meija-Bruton / Styled and Photographed by Jeffrey Pangputhipong #FearandWonder @Katie_King Fear & Wonder @F_and_W Special thanks to Tim Meara, Jo Simpson, Deedee Clayton, Svala Leaman Imogen Groarke & Vacha Wongpanit #FearandWonder #Fab
SPIRITUAL PHOTOGRAPH IN THE STYLE OF #ROBERTBOURSNELL
FEAR & WONDER
by
JEFFREY PANGPUTHIPONG