[Birth of Ectoplasm During Séance with the Medium Eva C (Detail)]

Juliette Alexandre-Bisson French

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This photograph shows the medium Eva Carrière (Marthe Béraud), in a trance, with witnesses assisting her in the production of a substance known as ectoplasm, which either remains shapeless or assumes the features of a human being.

[Birth of Ectoplasm During Séance with the Medium Eva C (Detail)], Juliette Alexandre-Bisson (French, 1861–1956), Gelatin silver print

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