Named one of one of Time-s best photobooks of 2019, this portrait of spiritualist communities across the US and Europe is now redesigned with additional archival images
American 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.
Named one of Time-s best photobooks of 2019, and now revisited by Atelier -itions, S-ce offers re
