When photography was new, people used it to suggest the endurance of the departed.

[Fiona Shnapple]

http://www.kenyonreview.org/kr-online-issue/2013-fall/selections/jeff-mcmahon-656342/

On Wed, Oct 30, 2013 at 7:49 PM, Fiona Shnapple <fionashnapple at gmail.com> wrote:
> An image authors find useful? There it is in The Pale King. In
> Bleeding Edge. Of course, in The House of the seven Gables.
>
> Why these old photographs?
>
> When photography was new, people used it to suggest the endurance of
> the departed.
>
> http://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2013/10/when-cameras-took-pictures-of-ghosts/281010/
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