Art Journal
Art Journal, Vol. 62, No. 2, Fall 2003
In This Issue
3
Close Encounters
Thematic Investigation: Photography and the Paranormal
4
The Blur of the Otherworldly
6
Where the Paranoid Meets the Paranormal: Speculations on Spirit Photography
18
Ectoplasms, Evanescence, and Photography
30
Disembodied Spirits: Spirit Photography and Rachel Whiteread's Ghost
44
Orbs, Blobs, and Glows: Astronauts, UFOs, and Photography
56
Projects
Rachel Marker and Her Book of Shadows
66
From The Writing on the Wall, Berlin, 1992–93: Projections in Berlin's Jewish Quarter
74
Constructing and Demolishing: Manual to Settle Sediments
84
Reviews
James Elkins on Iconoclash: Beyond the Image Wars in Science, Religion, and Art, ed. Bruno Latour and Peter Weibel
104
David Brody on Anthony W. Lee, Picturing Chinatown: Art and Orientalism in San Francisco
Francine Weiss on Kirsten Swinth, Painting Professionals: Women Artists and the Development of Modern American Art, 1870–1930, and Erica E. Hirshler, A Studio of Her Own: Women Artists in Boston, 1870–1940
Saul Ostrow on Beauty Matters, ed. Peg Zeglin Brand, Elaine Scarry, On Beauty and Being Just, Joanna Frueh, Monster/Beauty: Building the Body of Love, and Jeremy Gilbert-Rolfe, Beauty and the Contemporary Sublime



