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The
Rugs of War Exhibition catalogue
The exhibition catalogue from The Rugs
of War
Exhibition, curated by Nigel Lendon and Tim
Bonyhady is now available online. The
exhibition showcased twenty narrative carpets
created in the past two decades by expatriate
Afghan communities resident in Iran and Pakistan.
The exhibition catalogue explores this rich tradition
of war art through key essays by Tim Bonyhady,
Jasleen Dhamija and Nigel Lendon.
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Faces
of the Living Dead
Ghosts, spiritualist mediums, séances,
ectoplasm and auras…
By
Dr Martyn Jolly
Head of Photomedia
Australian National University
School of Art
www.anu.edu.au/ITA/CSA/photomedia |
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Faces
of the Living Dead,
a new British Library publication by Martyn Jolly, examines
the phenomenon of spirit photography that developed in the
1870s and is the first book of its kind to bring together
the extensive collection of spirit photographs from the
British Library’s Barlow Collection. Illustrated by
works of the leading spirit photographers of the nineteenth
and twentieth centuries, including Ada Deane, William Hope,
Frederick Hudson and Edward Wyllie it also includes spirit
photographs of one of spirit photography’s most high-profile
advocates, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, creator of Sherlock Holmes.
Published by the British Library, in the
US by Mark Batty and in Australia by Miegunyah, an imprint
of MUP.
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