Tell Him About the Twinkie

In time for Hallowe'en, the Globe and Mail is running an article on a spirit photography exhibition, The Perfect Medium: Photography and the Occult, that's running at the New York Metropolitan Museum of Art.  The article itself (It's oh so ectoplasmic) is a fun read, going into some of the methods used by hoaxers, but suffers from a lack of photos.  Only  Eugène Thiébault's Henri Robin and a Specter is pictured.  The site for the exhibit contains a few more photos (including one of the infamous Cottingley Fairies), but is equally disappointing.  (Of course, why would they put lots of photos on the web?  They do want people to come and look at the exhibition in person.)

Perhaps what's most interesting is the lengths some people went to to make believable looking photos—as opposed to so much modern spirit photography, which seems to consist consists solely of reflections of dust particles orbs, or this type of ectoplasm.  (Pay no attention to the man behind the curtain! candle in the lower left of the picture!)