Research Catalog

Title

Ted Serios : the mind's eye.

Author

Brottman, Mikita, 1966-

Publication

• Los Angeles : Atelier Éditions, [2023]
• ©2023

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Details

Additional Authors

• Chéroux, Clément, 1970-
• Durant, Mark Alice
• Hauver, Emily
• Howard, Ellie (Photographic critic)
• Roth, Paul
• Saunders, Beth
• Albin O. Kuhn Library & Gallery.

Description

223 pages : illustrations (photographs, some color), facsimiles; 26 cm

Summary

Our thoughts are known to us, and us alone. But for a brief period in the 1960s, Ted Serios (1918-2006) attempted to prove that his inner reality could be documented. Serios demonstrated an ostensibly psychic act termed "thoughtography," involving the transfer of mental images onto undeveloped Polaroid film. In studies supervised by respected Denver-based psychiatrist Dr. Jule Eisenbud, Serios produced over 1,000 anomalous photographs, a feat that has never been fully dismissed or wholly verified. Existing as an uncomfortable knot in time, the details of the Serios phenomenon can't be disentangled without questioning the social conditions that produced it in the first place. Contextualizing Serios' story within the twilight zone of 1960s America, Ted Serios: The Mind's Eye considers the reaches and restraints of belief and explores the multiple dimensions at play in the Serios phenomenon, including interpersonal relationships, scientific methods, photographic technologies, state militaristic operations and popular culture. Rather than seeking absolute truth, the volume allows the reader to arrive at their own conclusions through a series of thematic essays, narrative photographic stories, select ephemera and contemporary cultural artifacts. Exhibition: The Image Center, Toronto, Canada (25.01. - 02.04.2023).

Subject

• Serios, Ted
• Eisenbud, Jule
• Photographs > Psychic aspects
• Spirit photography

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (pages 210-218) and index

Contents

Foreword / Paul Roth -- Introduction / Emily Hauver -- The scientist and his subject / Mikita Brottman -- The prodigal son / Emily Hauver -- Inscrutable documents / Mark Alice Durant -- Black cats and TV: a journey into the mind's eye / Ellie Howard -- Psychic polaroids -- New frontiers / Beth Saunders -- Serios beyond belief / Clément Chéroux

Call Number

JFF 23-1026

ISBN

• 1954957033
• 9781954957039

OCLC

1367902942

Author

Brottman, Mikita, 1966- contributor.

Title

Ted Serios : the mind's eye.

Publisher

Los Angeles : Atelier Éditions, [2023]

Copyright Date

©2023

Edition

First edition.

Type of Content

text

still image

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references (pages 210-218) and index

Added Author

Chéroux, Clément, 1970- contributor.

Durant, Mark Alice, contributor.

Hauver, Emily, contributor.

Howard, Ellie (Photographic critic), contributor.

Roth, Paul, contributor.

Saunders, Beth, contributor

Albin O. Kuhn Library & Gallery.

Research Call Number

JFF 23-1026