{"product_id":"shannon-taggart-seance","title":"Shannon Taggart: Séance","description":"\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"a-expander-content a-expander-partial-collapse-content a-expander-content-expanded\" aria-expanded=\"true\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003eNamed one of one of\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold a-text-italic\"\u003eTime\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003e’s best photobooks of 2019, this portrait of spiritualist communities across the US and Europe is now redesigned with additional archival images\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eAmerican photographer Shannon Taggart’s fascination with spiritualism, the belief in deceased individuals’ ability to communicate with the living, began during her adolescence when a medium revealed additional information about the circumstances of Taggart’s grandfather’s death. A decade later, Taggart, then a practicing photojournalist, found herself obsessively drawn to Lily Dale, New York―the world’s largest spiritualist community. Her transformative experiences there catalyzed an 18-year odyssey documenting spiritualist communities throughout the world in search of “ectoplasm”―an emanation exorcised from the body of the medium, believed to be both spiritual and material.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cbr\u003eNamed one of \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eTime\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e’s best photobooks of 2019, and now revisited by Atelier Éditions, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eSéance\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e offers readers a remarkable series of supernatural photographs exploring spiritualist practices and beliefs within communities found across the US, the UK and Europe. The photos are accompanied by Taggart’s commentary on her experiences, a foreword by Dan Aykroyd, creator of the \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eGhostbusters\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e franchise and fourth-generation spiritualist, and illustrated essays by Andreas Fischer and Tony Oursler. Atelier Éditions’ reissue also features new commentary by writer and filmmaker J.F. Martel, additional archival images and a new design.\u003cbr\u003eBased in St. Paul, Minnesota, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003eShannon Taggart\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e (born 1975) has contributed to \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eTime, Newsweek, New York Times Magazine, Discover, New York, Wall Street Journal\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e and \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eReader’s Digest\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e. Her first monograph, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eSéance\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e (Fulgur Press), was published in 2019. She is currently working on an illustrated book about the Society for Research on Rapport and Telekinesis (SORRAT), one of the most exotic cases within the history of psychical research.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"a-expander-header a-expander-partial-collapse-header\"\u003e\n\u003ci class=\"a-icon a-icon-extender-collapse\"\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-expander-prompt\"\u003eRead less\u003c\/span\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Dale Zine Shop","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47536998252726,"sku":"ujr1789959789932","price":46.2,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0729\/0640\/8118\/files\/shannon-taggart-seance_1.jpg?v=1789959793","url":"https:\/\/oilfiltercap.shop\/products\/shannon-taggart-seance","provider":"My Store","version":"1.0","type":"link"}