I recieved the most beautiful book yesterday, 'Haunted Air' by Ossian Brown, A collection of Anonymous Hallowe'en photographs, America 1875-1955.
It has a stunning black fabric cover and the photos are reproduced perfectly in their original size.
Its such a stunning book.
"The photographs in Haunted Air provide an extraordinary glimpse into the traditions of this macabre festival from ages past, and form an important document of photographic history. These are the pictures of the dead: family portraits, mementoes of the treasured, now unrecognisable, other. Torn from album pages, sold piecemeal for pennies and scattered, abandoned to melancholy chance and the hands of strangers."
-The Random House Group
I hugely recomment that you buy this treasure of a book
Monday, 26 December 2011
Haunted Air
Labels:
antique,
costumes,
ephemera,
Halloween,
snapshot,
social history,
vintage photographs
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