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Seated man with spirit
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Title:
Seated man with spirit
NFSA ID
1004000
Year
1870
A black-and-white glass slide showing a fashionably dressed man sitting sideways on a chair, elbow resting over the side, with a spirit hovering at his left.
This is a typical example of the photographer placing his subject to one side of the frame so that a spirit can be comfortably superimposed in the composition.
It's difficult to accept now that people believed these images to be genuine.
The National Film and Sound Archive of Australia acknowledges Australia’s Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples as the Traditional Custodians of the land on which we work and live and gives respect to their Elders both past and present.