A brief history of ghosts and spirit photography | V&A

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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...

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19 июн 2024

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@vamuseum 7 месяцев назад

Liked this? Make sure you check out our brief history of vampires 🧛 ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-gry3H_28_Zc.htmlsi=OaUxIo-yC2mGzsPw

@marcusaberg9718 7 месяцев назад

Love this time of the year, when major institutions bring out their experts to produce spooky quality content like this. 👻

@vamuseum 7 месяцев назад

We've got more next week! Here's a clue: 💀

@sabbyd1832 7 месяцев назад

Yes, terrific

@magicknight13 7 месяцев назад

I love it!

@ANobodysHerstory 7 месяцев назад

I wrote my undergrad dissertation on Victorian spiritualism so I absolutely loved this upload! Thank you!

@GeorgiaGeorgette 7 месяцев назад

I want to read it!

@ANobodysHerstory 7 месяцев назад

@@GeorgiaGeorgette I don’t know how good it was but I loved researching it! 😅

@dannypetersmith4430 7 месяцев назад

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 ❤️❤❤

@vamuseum 7 месяцев назад

Just creepin it real 🕷

@janerkenbrack3373 7 месяцев назад

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.

@feenix47 7 месяцев назад

I always enjoy the V&A's videos. So, professional and well researched.

@kristi9475 7 месяцев назад

Thank you, V&A. The channel is fabulous!

@garywait3231 7 месяцев назад

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!

@zoefoster1873 7 месяцев назад

Fascinating! One minor point, though - Prince Albert can't have been photographed in the late 19th century as stated, as he died in 1861

@magicknight13 7 месяцев назад

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

@evaevaevaevaevaeva 7 месяцев назад

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 🖤☠️👻

@user-vm1hf1is3k 7 месяцев назад

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.

@Annika4000 5 месяцев назад

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.

@111bella 7 месяцев назад

Love these videos so much 🖤 wish they were longer because I’d watch these all day long!

@vamuseum 7 месяцев назад

More to come!

@Delilah.Elizabeth 7 месяцев назад

What a fun and intriguing video! Thank you for sharing! 💜

@sabbyd1832 7 месяцев назад

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

@ShenanigansinMotion 7 месяцев назад

I enjoyed watching this, its great to see all the art and learn a little more about it!

@ziggyvonmars 7 месяцев назад

This was fantastic!

@maxlinder5262 7 месяцев назад

Interesting video.....😮

@mawmawd627 7 месяцев назад

Spooky!!!🎃👻💀

@Fluffymonkeyem 7 месяцев назад

The music went *hard*. I love how interested in spiritualism and mysticism the Victorians were despite how many rules they had.

@winterlighthome 7 месяцев назад

This is such a fun video! Thank you for your great channel.

@mrbluemonkeys 7 месяцев назад

This is great

@oneshotme 7 месяцев назад

I enjoyed your video and I gave it a Thumbs Up

@rosskinghorn 7 месяцев назад

Man I love these videos. That's all x

@anitchlikadze3451 7 месяцев назад

💖

@bollox21 7 месяцев назад

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?)😊

@darklingeraeld-ridge7946 7 месяцев назад

Most certainly, am a sceptic. But I saw one. That is hard to reconcile.

@tramasrarasoddplots 7 месяцев назад

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.

@smittenthekitteninmittens2679 5 месяцев назад

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

@mikebeatstsb7030 7 месяцев назад

Bit sped up the part around 6-ending at 8:00

@tmc5576 7 месяцев назад

SLAY

@cayleytomburgessharrystyle1381 7 месяцев назад

hello Victoria and Albert museum love your RU-vid channel do you believe in ghost

@user-th7np8ip4v 5 месяцев назад

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 !