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Haunted Air by Ossian Brown (Hardcover, 2010)
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A collection of anonymous Hallowe'en Photographs from America, c.1875 - 1955 The roots of Halloween lie in the ancient pre-Christian Celtic festival of Samhain, a feast to mark the death of the old year and the birth of the new. It was believed that on this night the veil separating the worlds of the living and the dead grew thin and ruptured, allowing spirits to pass through and walk unseen but not unheard amongst men. The advent of Christianity saw the pagan festival subsumed in All Souls' Day, when across Europe the dead were mourned and venerated. Children and the poor, often masked or in outlandish costume, wandered the night begging 'soul cakes' in exchange for prayers, and fires burned to keep malevolent phantoms at bay.From Europe, the haunted tradition would quickly take root and flourish in the fertile soil of the New World. Feeding hungrily on fresh lore, consuming half-remembered tales of its own shadowy origins and rituals, Hallowee'en was reborn in America. The pumpkin supplanted the carved turnip; costumes grew ever stranger, and celebrants both rural and urban seized gleefully on the festival's intoxicating, lawless spirit. For one wild night, the dead stared into the faces of the living and theliving, ghoulishly masked and clad in tattered backwoods baroque, stared back.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.Product Identifiers
PublisherVintage Publishing, Geoff Cox
ISBN-139780224089708
eBay Product ID (ePID)92926576
Product Key Features
Book TitleHaunted Air
AuthorOssian Brown
FormatHardcover
LanguageEnglish
Publication Year2010
Number of Pages216 Pages
Dimensions
Item Height227mm
Item Width200mm
Item Weight923g
Additional Product Features
Title_AuthorOssian Brown
Country/Region of ManufactureUnited Kingdom
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- 23 Oct, 2018
A Real Treat!
A real treat, packed full of rather surreal old photos of families in homemade Halloween outfits. Get a version with the David Lynch foreword. This will come out every October 🦇👻☠️Verified purchase: YesCondition: New
- 07 Dec, 2018
Hauntingly beautiful
A lovely collection of Halloween tradition way back in times past...with a brilliant and thoughtful forward by David Lynch.Verified purchase: YesCondition: New
- 16 May, 2022
Excelente
ExcelenteVerified purchase: YesCondition: Pre-owned
