A brief history of ghosts and spirit photography | V&A
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- Опубліковано 4 чер 2024
- Do you believe in ghosts? Do you believe you can see the unseen?
The Victorians were obsessed with seances, spiritualism and other creepy ways of contacting and capturing ghosts, including spirit photography - a genre which emerged in the 1840s.
Watch as curators Ruth and Lydia take us through some eerie depictions of ghosts in our print and photography collections, from stories by Charles Dickens, to ghostly apparitions in stereographs, and famous photographs by Lewis Carroll and Cecil Beaton - not to mention the legendary V&A ghost who supposedly haunts the museum in South Kensington…..
00:00 Why were the Victorians obsessed with ghosts?
00:58 Ghosts on Exhibition Road
01:57 Spiritualism, clairvoyant trances and Charles Altamont Doyle
03:42 What is a seance?
05:24 Ghost stories and Charles Dickens
06:57 Fraudsters and ghosts at the theatre - The Davenport Brothers
07:53 Spirit photography and Lewis Carroll
10:06 3D ghosts in stereographs
12:17 Ghosts in the home
13:31 The unconscious and Cecil Beaton's surrealist memento mori
14:44 The legend of the V&A ghost
See objects for yourself in our Prints and Drawings Study Room: www.vam.ac.uk/info/study-room...
See more in our photography collection: www.vam.ac.uk/collections/pho... - Розваги
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Love this time of the year, when major institutions bring out their experts to produce spooky quality content like this. 👻
We've got more next week! Here's a clue: 💀
Yes, terrific
I love it!
I wrote my undergrad dissertation on Victorian spiritualism so I absolutely loved this upload! Thank you!
I want to read it!
@@GeorgiaGeorgette I don’t know how good it was but I loved researching it! 😅
This is such a welcome surprise. I would've never expected this channel to participate in the spooky season. Please keep surprising us. Much love ❤️❤❤
Just creepin it real 🕷
No, I do not believe in ghosts, but I do enjoy the fun of spookiness. I like it when people create images or illusions that are compelling, even though there is a wall of skepticism that prevents me from getting sucked in.
This is especially true around Halloween. I will engage with my ancestors as if they can hear me, though the only purpose this has is to remind me of my own inevitable death, and to imagine how they might see the world today, were they actually looking at it from the spirit world.
I always enjoy the V&A's videos. So, professional and well researched.
As a historian and rare book collector, as well as Dickens enthusiast, one of the treasures of my collection is an l870's edition of a volume privately published in Brattleboro, Vt. (USA) purporting to be the completed Edwin Drood communicated to the anonymous "author" by Dickens' spirit. In its defense, I must say that the "completion" is at least no worse than Dickens' own portion of the novel!
Fascinating! One minor point, though - Prince Albert can't have been photographed in the late 19th century as stated, as he died in 1861
Love this!!! Excellent video, excellent narrator, and love her spooky sweater and the way the book is protected and held up by a pillow! Thank you for the upload
Absolutely fascinating! I would love to see a full length documentary delving deeper into the historic context of supernatural belief in the Victorian era. Such an intriguing subject matter and a wonderful video.
Thank you V&A 🖤☠️👻
Thank you, V&A. The channel is fabulous!
I love these V&A videos. Thank you so much for these short thematic (and very informative) videos. A pleasure to watch and learn. My other favorites from this series were the one on costuming for the play "Six" and the holiday one about Christmas baubles.
I actually remember staging this kind of ghost photo with my Dad (an amateur photographer, as am I now I'm older) when I was about five, wearing a white outfit and moving around during a long exposure. I loved it. This was a very interesting video.
I had to check as in the photograph it looked like it was on its last legs. Great Ote Hall has been renovated. 13th century, wow
What a fun and intriguing video! Thank you for sharing! 💜
Love these videos so much 🖤 wish they were longer because I’d watch these all day long!
More to come!
I enjoyed watching this, its great to see all the art and learn a little more about it!
The music went *hard*. I love how interested in spiritualism and mysticism the Victorians were despite how many rules they had.
This is such a fun video! Thank you for your great channel.
This was fantastic!
Interesting video.....😮
Spooky!!!🎃👻💀
Super video! Love that the V&A does these seasonal shorts. Great content and presenters (off topic but where did the presenter get her Halloween sweater?)😊
I enjoyed your video and I gave it a Thumbs Up
This is great
Most certainly, am a sceptic. But I saw one. That is hard to reconcile.
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Man I love these videos. That's all x
Juan, so glad you're doing better. Nezahualcoyotl was a king, poet and warrior from the region of Texcoco. He was not an Aztec tho they all share the language. I agree that probably the beauty of the language is lost. He was deeply admired by the Spaniards bc he was so educated. He made literacy mandatory and his nation was highly educated.
Is that where the term Davenport Cabinet comes from?....I have only heard the term as it is the name of a band I enjoy
hello Victoria and Albert museum love your UA-cam channel do you believe in ghost
Bit sped up the part around 6-ending at 8:00
SLAY
It would have been nice to hear what was being said except whoever dubbed on the music it was so loud that I couldnt hear a word the sound engineer needs sacking !
Ms. Lydia Caston’s fingernails are so beautifully done - she must have gone to a Vietnamese manicurist (?) …
Please spare us "performativity".