Picturing aura: a visual biography

Abstract

"Picturing Aura is the first book of its kind: an extended historical, anthropological, and philosophical study of efforts to visualize 'the human aura'"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents

Prologue: the tangle -- Introduction -- Part I: Elements of a practice. Science and occultism: a global trading zone ; Visualizing the subtle body ; Seeing and seeing beyond ; Family resemblances: the aura's image bank ; Faith in instruments ; The aura and its trace: electricity as a medium of tactile vision -- Part II: Migration, trade, entanglement. The hand of Narkiewicz-Jodko ; From center to periphery and back again ; Kirlian photography, Cold War parapsychology, and groovy science ; DIY clairvoyance ; Heliographic art ; Harmony, protection, healing ; Phantom pictures -- Epilogue -- Appendix: the aura debunked?