{"id":2952,"date":"2017-03-15T15:10:33","date_gmt":"2017-03-15T19:10:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.echonyc.com\/~horn\/unbelievable\/?p=2952"},"modified":"2017-03-15T15:42:41","modified_gmt":"2017-03-15T19:42:41","slug":"help-fund-seance-spiritualist-ritual-and-the-search-for-ectoplasm","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.echonyc.com\/~horn\/unbelievable\/?p=2952","title":{"rendered":"Help Fund S\u00c9ANCE: Spiritualist Ritual and the Search for Ectoplasm"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Photographer <a href=\"http:\/\/www.shannontaggart.com\/\">Shannon Taggert<\/a> has started a <a href=\"https:\/\/unbound.com\/books\/seance-spiritualist\">campaign to fund a book of photographs<\/a> she&#8217;s taken of seances over the past sixteen years.  You will see how gorgeous these photographs are when you go to her campaign page and watch the brief video about the project.  I&#8217;m in!!<\/p>\n<p>From Shannon:  &#8220;I first became aware of Spiritualism as a teenager, after my cousin received a reading from a medium who revealed a secret about my grandfather\u2019s death that proved to be true. Since then, I have been deeply curious about how someone could know such a thing.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;In 2001, I began photographing at the place where my grandfather\u2019s message was received: Lily Dale, New York, the town which is home to the world\u2019s largest Spiritualist community. I quickly immersed myself in Lily Dale\u2019s world \u2013 I received readings, experienced healings, joined in s\u00e9ances, attended a psychic college and sat in a medium\u2019s cabinet, always with my camera. I expected to spend one summer figuring out the tricks of the Spiritualist trade. Instead, Spiritualism\u2019s mysterious processes, earnest practitioners, surprising cultural history and bizarre photographic past became a resource and an inspiration for my own body of work. I began a sixteen-year quest to document contemporary Spiritualism and to find and photograph \u2018ectoplasm\u2019 \u2013 the elusive substance that is said to be both spiritual and material.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.echonyc.com\/~horn\/unbelievable\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/Taggert.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.echonyc.com\/~horn\/unbelievable\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/Taggert.jpg\" alt=\"Shannon Taggert\" width=\"524\" height=\"295\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-2953\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.echonyc.com\/~horn\/unbelievable\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/Taggert.jpg 524w, https:\/\/www.echonyc.com\/~horn\/unbelievable\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/Taggert-300x169.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 524px) 100vw, 524px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Photographer Shannon Taggert has started a campaign to fund a book of photographs she&#8217;s taken of seances over the past sixteen years. 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