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Shannon Taggart
Author of SÉANCE & forthcoming SORRAT
The first published feature on SORRAT appears in the February 2026 issue of #Artforum. Truly one of the best editorial and design experiences I’ve had in all my years working with magazines.
Grateful to dream editor Alex Jovanovich for believing in this project, and to art historian Susan Aberth for absolutely nailing SORRAT’s aesthetic: “It’s like ‘Poltergeist’ meets Stephen Shore.”
On sale now — and it looks so beautiful in print. Link to the online version in my bio.
Thank you @artforum @tinariversryan @mom_innovations_plus @chandraglick
The first published feature on SORRAT appears in the February 2026 issue of #Artforum. Truly one of the best editorial and design experiences I’ve had in all my years working with magazines.
Grateful to dream editor Alex Jovanovich for believing in this project, and to art historian Susan Aberth for absolutely nailing SORRAT’s aesthetic: “It’s like ‘Poltergeist’ meets Stephen Shore.”
On sale now — and it looks so beautiful in print. Link to the online version in my bio.
Thank you @artforum @tinariversryan @mom_innovations_plus @chandraglick
The first published feature on SORRAT appears in the February 2026 issue of #Artforum. Truly one of the best editorial and design experiences I’ve had in all my years working with magazines.
Grateful to dream editor Alex Jovanovich for believing in this project, and to art historian Susan Aberth for absolutely nailing SORRAT’s aesthetic: “It’s like ‘Poltergeist’ meets Stephen Shore.”
On sale now — and it looks so beautiful in print. Link to the online version in my bio.
Thank you @artforum @tinariversryan @mom_innovations_plus @chandraglick
The first published feature on SORRAT appears in the February 2026 issue of #Artforum. Truly one of the best editorial and design experiences I’ve had in all my years working with magazines.
Grateful to dream editor Alex Jovanovich for believing in this project, and to art historian Susan Aberth for absolutely nailing SORRAT’s aesthetic: “It’s like ‘Poltergeist’ meets Stephen Shore.”
On sale now — and it looks so beautiful in print. Link to the online version in my bio.
Thank you @artforum @tinariversryan @mom_innovations_plus @chandraglick
The first published feature on SORRAT appears in the February 2026 issue of #Artforum. Truly one of the best editorial and design experiences I’ve had in all my years working with magazines.
Grateful to dream editor Alex Jovanovich for believing in this project, and to art historian Susan Aberth for absolutely nailing SORRAT’s aesthetic: “It’s like ‘Poltergeist’ meets Stephen Shore.”
On sale now — and it looks so beautiful in print. Link to the online version in my bio.
Thank you @artforum @tinariversryan @mom_innovations_plus @chandraglick
Tracing a century of supernatural sightings captured on film. 📷
From ghosts to glowing anomalies—paranormal photographs reveal how the camera serves spiritual, emotional, and artistic functions beyond empirical fact.
Photographer and author Shannon Taggart sat down with the Walker Reader to unpack a century of bewildering supernatural photography—from the Cottingley Fairies and Winnipeg séances to Kirlian experiments, thoughtography, and modern orb photography. These images reveal how photography can do more than document reality.
📖 Read the full article on the Walker Reader.
Tracing a century of supernatural sightings captured on film. 📷
From ghosts to glowing anomalies—paranormal photographs reveal how the camera serves spiritual, emotional, and artistic functions beyond empirical fact.
Photographer and author Shannon Taggart sat down with the Walker Reader to unpack a century of bewildering supernatural photography—from the Cottingley Fairies and Winnipeg séances to Kirlian experiments, thoughtography, and modern orb photography. These images reveal how photography can do more than document reality.
📖 Read the full article on the Walker Reader.
Tracing a century of supernatural sightings captured on film. 📷
From ghosts to glowing anomalies—paranormal photographs reveal how the camera serves spiritual, emotional, and artistic functions beyond empirical fact.
Photographer and author Shannon Taggart sat down with the Walker Reader to unpack a century of bewildering supernatural photography—from the Cottingley Fairies and Winnipeg séances to Kirlian experiments, thoughtography, and modern orb photography. These images reveal how photography can do more than document reality.
📖 Read the full article on the Walker Reader.
Tracing a century of supernatural sightings captured on film. 📷
From ghosts to glowing anomalies—paranormal photographs reveal how the camera serves spiritual, emotional, and artistic functions beyond empirical fact.
Photographer and author Shannon Taggart sat down with the Walker Reader to unpack a century of bewildering supernatural photography—from the Cottingley Fairies and Winnipeg séances to Kirlian experiments, thoughtography, and modern orb photography. These images reveal how photography can do more than document reality.
📖 Read the full article on the Walker Reader.
Tracing a century of supernatural sightings captured on film. 📷
From ghosts to glowing anomalies—paranormal photographs reveal how the camera serves spiritual, emotional, and artistic functions beyond empirical fact.
Photographer and author Shannon Taggart sat down with the Walker Reader to unpack a century of bewildering supernatural photography—from the Cottingley Fairies and Winnipeg séances to Kirlian experiments, thoughtography, and modern orb photography. These images reveal how photography can do more than document reality.
📖 Read the full article on the Walker Reader.
Tracing a century of supernatural sightings captured on film. 📷
From ghosts to glowing anomalies—paranormal photographs reveal how the camera serves spiritual, emotional, and artistic functions beyond empirical fact.
Photographer and author Shannon Taggart sat down with the Walker Reader to unpack a century of bewildering supernatural photography—from the Cottingley Fairies and Winnipeg séances to Kirlian experiments, thoughtography, and modern orb photography. These images reveal how photography can do more than document reality.
📖 Read the full article on the Walker Reader.
Tracing a century of supernatural sightings captured on film. 📷
From ghosts to glowing anomalies—paranormal photographs reveal how the camera serves spiritual, emotional, and artistic functions beyond empirical fact.
Photographer and author Shannon Taggart sat down with the Walker Reader to unpack a century of bewildering supernatural photography—from the Cottingley Fairies and Winnipeg séances to Kirlian experiments, thoughtography, and modern orb photography. These images reveal how photography can do more than document reality.
📖 Read the full article on the Walker Reader.
Tracing a century of supernatural sightings captured on film. 📷
From ghosts to glowing anomalies—paranormal photographs reveal how the camera serves spiritual, emotional, and artistic functions beyond empirical fact.
Photographer and author Shannon Taggart sat down with the Walker Reader to unpack a century of bewildering supernatural photography—from the Cottingley Fairies and Winnipeg séances to Kirlian experiments, thoughtography, and modern orb photography. These images reveal how photography can do more than document reality.
📖 Read the full article on the Walker Reader.
Tracing a century of supernatural sightings captured on film. 📷
From ghosts to glowing anomalies—paranormal photographs reveal how the camera serves spiritual, emotional, and artistic functions beyond empirical fact.
Photographer and author Shannon Taggart sat down with the Walker Reader to unpack a century of bewildering supernatural photography—from the Cottingley Fairies and Winnipeg séances to Kirlian experiments, thoughtography, and modern orb photography. These images reveal how photography can do more than document reality.
📖 Read the full article on the Walker Reader.
Since the late 1800s, people have tried to photograph the invisible—ghosts, dreams, prayers, sickness, even the human soul. The results are sometimes beautiful, often disturbing, and always uncanny.
Just in time for Halloween, photographer and author Shannon Taggart sat down with the Walker Reader to discuss how photographs confront the unseen. She explores everything from spirit photographs to the artifacts of the medium itself, highlighting how capturing the invisible is increasingly relevant today.
Read the full story at the 🔗 in bio.
(1) “The medium Stanisława P: emission and resorption of an ectoplasmic substance through the mouth.” Albert von Schrenck-Notzing, 1913. Courtesy of the Photographic Collections of the Institut für Grenzgebiete der Psychologie und Psychohygiene, Freiburg im Breisgau; (2) Untitled Spirit Photo, c. 1930. Collection of Tony Oursler. Courtesy Tony Oursler. (3) Album of Spirit Photographs, Frederick Hudson, 1872. Metropolitan Museum of Art, Gilman Collection, Gift of The Howard Gilman Foundation, 2005; (4) Jakob Ottonowitsch von Narkiewitsch-Jodko, Fluidic photograph, 1883. Collection of Tony Oursler. Courtesy Tony Oursler.
Since the late 1800s, people have tried to photograph the invisible—ghosts, dreams, prayers, sickness, even the human soul. The results are sometimes beautiful, often disturbing, and always uncanny.
Just in time for Halloween, photographer and author Shannon Taggart sat down with the Walker Reader to discuss how photographs confront the unseen. She explores everything from spirit photographs to the artifacts of the medium itself, highlighting how capturing the invisible is increasingly relevant today.
Read the full story at the 🔗 in bio.
(1) “The medium Stanisława P: emission and resorption of an ectoplasmic substance through the mouth.” Albert von Schrenck-Notzing, 1913. Courtesy of the Photographic Collections of the Institut für Grenzgebiete der Psychologie und Psychohygiene, Freiburg im Breisgau; (2) Untitled Spirit Photo, c. 1930. Collection of Tony Oursler. Courtesy Tony Oursler. (3) Album of Spirit Photographs, Frederick Hudson, 1872. Metropolitan Museum of Art, Gilman Collection, Gift of The Howard Gilman Foundation, 2005; (4) Jakob Ottonowitsch von Narkiewitsch-Jodko, Fluidic photograph, 1883. Collection of Tony Oursler. Courtesy Tony Oursler.
Since the late 1800s, people have tried to photograph the invisible—ghosts, dreams, prayers, sickness, even the human soul. The results are sometimes beautiful, often disturbing, and always uncanny.
Just in time for Halloween, photographer and author Shannon Taggart sat down with the Walker Reader to discuss how photographs confront the unseen. She explores everything from spirit photographs to the artifacts of the medium itself, highlighting how capturing the invisible is increasingly relevant today.
Read the full story at the 🔗 in bio.
(1) “The medium Stanisława P: emission and resorption of an ectoplasmic substance through the mouth.” Albert von Schrenck-Notzing, 1913. Courtesy of the Photographic Collections of the Institut für Grenzgebiete der Psychologie und Psychohygiene, Freiburg im Breisgau; (2) Untitled Spirit Photo, c. 1930. Collection of Tony Oursler. Courtesy Tony Oursler. (3) Album of Spirit Photographs, Frederick Hudson, 1872. Metropolitan Museum of Art, Gilman Collection, Gift of The Howard Gilman Foundation, 2005; (4) Jakob Ottonowitsch von Narkiewitsch-Jodko, Fluidic photograph, 1883. Collection of Tony Oursler. Courtesy Tony Oursler.
Since the late 1800s, people have tried to photograph the invisible—ghosts, dreams, prayers, sickness, even the human soul. The results are sometimes beautiful, often disturbing, and always uncanny.
Just in time for Halloween, photographer and author Shannon Taggart sat down with the Walker Reader to discuss how photographs confront the unseen. She explores everything from spirit photographs to the artifacts of the medium itself, highlighting how capturing the invisible is increasingly relevant today.
Read the full story at the 🔗 in bio.
(1) “The medium Stanisława P: emission and resorption of an ectoplasmic substance through the mouth.” Albert von Schrenck-Notzing, 1913. Courtesy of the Photographic Collections of the Institut für Grenzgebiete der Psychologie und Psychohygiene, Freiburg im Breisgau; (2) Untitled Spirit Photo, c. 1930. Collection of Tony Oursler. Courtesy Tony Oursler. (3) Album of Spirit Photographs, Frederick Hudson, 1872. Metropolitan Museum of Art, Gilman Collection, Gift of The Howard Gilman Foundation, 2005; (4) Jakob Ottonowitsch von Narkiewitsch-Jodko, Fluidic photograph, 1883. Collection of Tony Oursler. Courtesy Tony Oursler.
Since the late 1800s, people have tried to photograph the invisible—ghosts, dreams, prayers, sickness, even the human soul. The results are sometimes beautiful, often disturbing, and always uncanny.
Just in time for Halloween, photographer and author Shannon Taggart sat down with the Walker Reader to discuss how photographs confront the unseen. She explores everything from spirit photographs to the artifacts of the medium itself, highlighting how capturing the invisible is increasingly relevant today.
Read the full story at the 🔗 in bio.
(1) “The medium Stanisława P: emission and resorption of an ectoplasmic substance through the mouth.” Albert von Schrenck-Notzing, 1913. Courtesy of the Photographic Collections of the Institut für Grenzgebiete der Psychologie und Psychohygiene, Freiburg im Breisgau; (2) Untitled Spirit Photo, c. 1930. Collection of Tony Oursler. Courtesy Tony Oursler. (3) Album of Spirit Photographs, Frederick Hudson, 1872. Metropolitan Museum of Art, Gilman Collection, Gift of The Howard Gilman Foundation, 2005; (4) Jakob Ottonowitsch von Narkiewitsch-Jodko, Fluidic photograph, 1883. Collection of Tony Oursler. Courtesy Tony Oursler.
Since the late 1800s, people have tried to photograph the invisible—ghosts, dreams, prayers, sickness, even the human soul. The results are sometimes beautiful, often disturbing, and always uncanny.
Just in time for Halloween, photographer and author Shannon Taggart sat down with the Walker Reader to discuss how photographs confront the unseen. She explores everything from spirit photographs to the artifacts of the medium itself, highlighting how capturing the invisible is increasingly relevant today.
Read the full story at the 🔗 in bio.
(1) “The medium Stanisława P: emission and resorption of an ectoplasmic substance through the mouth.” Albert von Schrenck-Notzing, 1913. Courtesy of the Photographic Collections of the Institut für Grenzgebiete der Psychologie und Psychohygiene, Freiburg im Breisgau; (2) Untitled Spirit Photo, c. 1930. Collection of Tony Oursler. Courtesy Tony Oursler. (3) Album of Spirit Photographs, Frederick Hudson, 1872. Metropolitan Museum of Art, Gilman Collection, Gift of The Howard Gilman Foundation, 2005; (4) Jakob Ottonowitsch von Narkiewitsch-Jodko, Fluidic photograph, 1883. Collection of Tony Oursler. Courtesy Tony Oursler.
Since the late 1800s, people have tried to photograph the invisible—ghosts, dreams, prayers, sickness, even the human soul. The results are sometimes beautiful, often disturbing, and always uncanny.
Just in time for Halloween, photographer and author Shannon Taggart sat down with the Walker Reader to discuss how photographs confront the unseen. She explores everything from spirit photographs to the artifacts of the medium itself, highlighting how capturing the invisible is increasingly relevant today.
Read the full story at the 🔗 in bio.
(1) “The medium Stanisława P: emission and resorption of an ectoplasmic substance through the mouth.” Albert von Schrenck-Notzing, 1913. Courtesy of the Photographic Collections of the Institut für Grenzgebiete der Psychologie und Psychohygiene, Freiburg im Breisgau; (2) Untitled Spirit Photo, c. 1930. Collection of Tony Oursler. Courtesy Tony Oursler. (3) Album of Spirit Photographs, Frederick Hudson, 1872. Metropolitan Museum of Art, Gilman Collection, Gift of The Howard Gilman Foundation, 2005; (4) Jakob Ottonowitsch von Narkiewitsch-Jodko, Fluidic photograph, 1883. Collection of Tony Oursler. Courtesy Tony Oursler.
Since the late 1800s, people have tried to photograph the invisible—ghosts, dreams, prayers, sickness, even the human soul. The results are sometimes beautiful, often disturbing, and always uncanny.
Just in time for Halloween, photographer and author Shannon Taggart sat down with the Walker Reader to discuss how photographs confront the unseen. She explores everything from spirit photographs to the artifacts of the medium itself, highlighting how capturing the invisible is increasingly relevant today.
Read the full story at the 🔗 in bio.
(1) “The medium Stanisława P: emission and resorption of an ectoplasmic substance through the mouth.” Albert von Schrenck-Notzing, 1913. Courtesy of the Photographic Collections of the Institut für Grenzgebiete der Psychologie und Psychohygiene, Freiburg im Breisgau; (2) Untitled Spirit Photo, c. 1930. Collection of Tony Oursler. Courtesy Tony Oursler. (3) Album of Spirit Photographs, Frederick Hudson, 1872. Metropolitan Museum of Art, Gilman Collection, Gift of The Howard Gilman Foundation, 2005; (4) Jakob Ottonowitsch von Narkiewitsch-Jodko, Fluidic photograph, 1883. Collection of Tony Oursler. Courtesy Tony Oursler.
The first exhibition of Séance in France is now on view @echofinearts through July. The show brings together 48 works across three floors. I will be there in person for an artist talk on June 20. #séance
I had the opportunity to photograph S.P.I.D.E.R., one of the first computerized ghost-hunting machines. Built by psychical researcher Tony Cornell in 1982, the device combined cameras, sensors, recorders, and environmental monitoring systems in an attempt to automatically detect paranormal activity.
On Tony Cornell’s S.P.I.D.E.R.:
https://shannontaggart.substack.com
I had the pleasure of reviewing @picturingaura by @jeremystolow for The Society for Psychical Research. A unique work of scholarship! Highly recommended.
https://www.spr.ac.uk/PicturingAura
PiE’s Spotlights of the Week ⚡
Recommendations May 4 – 10, 2026
William Wegman
“Looking Right and Left”
Huxley-Parlour, Gallery Wiltshire, Mildenhall, Marlborough, UK
May 5 — June 3, 2026
Shannon Taggart
“Séance”
Echo Fine Arts, Cannes, FR
May 5 — July 4, 2026
Anja Schlamann
“Straightto – 22 years of photography”
Burgau Castle, Düren, DE
May 10 — July 5, 2026
☞ Quick links on PiE Photography in Europe:
https://www.photographyineurope.com/spotlights/
Image: © PiE – Photography in Europe
Symposium at Lily Dale is July 23-25 with extra programs beginning July 20. Join us!!! This epic 12th edition includes @robzabrecky @w3eirdwayz @drjackhunter #paulgaunt #mariamangini @leilataylor @tgrievecarlson @otherworldpod @phantasmaphile @astihustvedt @lamphole @americanmuseumofparamusicology @danieldpaul #weirdstudies @movetk @uparoundthesun @ahwesh_peggy
Mirror broken by the Enfield Poltergeist in 1977, photographed at the media archive of the Society for Psychical Research, 2025.
On the Afterlife of a Poltergeist: https://shannontaggart.substack.com/p/enfield-relics
I spent the month of March as Artist in Residence at the Harvard Divinity School Center for the Study of World Religions. It was an incredible experience meeting scholars across disciplines, sharing my work, and researching séances held on campus in Emerson Hall in the 1920s with the medium Mina “Margery” Crandon.
1–2. Sign for my talk at the Harvard Divinity School Center for the Study of World Religions, and for my office there.
3. In the stacks at Widener Library, overwhelmed by its many treasures. The building is dedicated to a Harvard alumnus and book collector who died on the Titanic. It is said to be one of the most haunted spots on campus.
4. One of the primary sources I had access to: books donated by Margery’s husband, Le Roi Goddard Crandon, a Boston surgeon, Harvard graduate, and instructor at Harvard Medical School.
5. The testing apparatus used during a séance held as part of the second Harvard investigation of Margery, Emerson Hall, Harvard College, 1925. Courtesy of the Libbet Crandon de Malamud Collection.
6. Margery delivering the ectoplasmic hand said to belong to her deceased brother during a séance, 1925. Courtesy of the Libbet Crandon de Malamud Collection.
7. Notes from a Margery file in Houghton Library.
8. My apartment was just down the block from the former home of William James, founder of Harvard’s psychology department and also founding member of the American Society for Psychical Research.
https://cswr.hds.harvard.edu/news/2026/03/18/medium-harvard
https://shannontaggart.substack.com/p/the-hand-in-emerson-hall
I spent the month of March as Artist in Residence at the Harvard Divinity School Center for the Study of World Religions. It was an incredible experience meeting scholars across disciplines, sharing my work, and researching séances held on campus in Emerson Hall in the 1920s with the medium Mina “Margery” Crandon.
1–2. Sign for my talk at the Harvard Divinity School Center for the Study of World Religions, and for my office there.
3. In the stacks at Widener Library, overwhelmed by its many treasures. The building is dedicated to a Harvard alumnus and book collector who died on the Titanic. It is said to be one of the most haunted spots on campus.
4. One of the primary sources I had access to: books donated by Margery’s husband, Le Roi Goddard Crandon, a Boston surgeon, Harvard graduate, and instructor at Harvard Medical School.
5. The testing apparatus used during a séance held as part of the second Harvard investigation of Margery, Emerson Hall, Harvard College, 1925. Courtesy of the Libbet Crandon de Malamud Collection.
6. Margery delivering the ectoplasmic hand said to belong to her deceased brother during a séance, 1925. Courtesy of the Libbet Crandon de Malamud Collection.
7. Notes from a Margery file in Houghton Library.
8. My apartment was just down the block from the former home of William James, founder of Harvard’s psychology department and also founding member of the American Society for Psychical Research.
https://cswr.hds.harvard.edu/news/2026/03/18/medium-harvard
https://shannontaggart.substack.com/p/the-hand-in-emerson-hall
I spent the month of March as Artist in Residence at the Harvard Divinity School Center for the Study of World Religions. It was an incredible experience meeting scholars across disciplines, sharing my work, and researching séances held on campus in Emerson Hall in the 1920s with the medium Mina “Margery” Crandon.
1–2. Sign for my talk at the Harvard Divinity School Center for the Study of World Religions, and for my office there.
3. In the stacks at Widener Library, overwhelmed by its many treasures. The building is dedicated to a Harvard alumnus and book collector who died on the Titanic. It is said to be one of the most haunted spots on campus.
4. One of the primary sources I had access to: books donated by Margery’s husband, Le Roi Goddard Crandon, a Boston surgeon, Harvard graduate, and instructor at Harvard Medical School.
5. The testing apparatus used during a séance held as part of the second Harvard investigation of Margery, Emerson Hall, Harvard College, 1925. Courtesy of the Libbet Crandon de Malamud Collection.
6. Margery delivering the ectoplasmic hand said to belong to her deceased brother during a séance, 1925. Courtesy of the Libbet Crandon de Malamud Collection.
7. Notes from a Margery file in Houghton Library.
8. My apartment was just down the block from the former home of William James, founder of Harvard’s psychology department and also founding member of the American Society for Psychical Research.
https://cswr.hds.harvard.edu/news/2026/03/18/medium-harvard
https://shannontaggart.substack.com/p/the-hand-in-emerson-hall
I spent the month of March as Artist in Residence at the Harvard Divinity School Center for the Study of World Religions. It was an incredible experience meeting scholars across disciplines, sharing my work, and researching séances held on campus in Emerson Hall in the 1920s with the medium Mina “Margery” Crandon.
1–2. Sign for my talk at the Harvard Divinity School Center for the Study of World Religions, and for my office there.
3. In the stacks at Widener Library, overwhelmed by its many treasures. The building is dedicated to a Harvard alumnus and book collector who died on the Titanic. It is said to be one of the most haunted spots on campus.
4. One of the primary sources I had access to: books donated by Margery’s husband, Le Roi Goddard Crandon, a Boston surgeon, Harvard graduate, and instructor at Harvard Medical School.
5. The testing apparatus used during a séance held as part of the second Harvard investigation of Margery, Emerson Hall, Harvard College, 1925. Courtesy of the Libbet Crandon de Malamud Collection.
6. Margery delivering the ectoplasmic hand said to belong to her deceased brother during a séance, 1925. Courtesy of the Libbet Crandon de Malamud Collection.
7. Notes from a Margery file in Houghton Library.
8. My apartment was just down the block from the former home of William James, founder of Harvard’s psychology department and also founding member of the American Society for Psychical Research.
https://cswr.hds.harvard.edu/news/2026/03/18/medium-harvard
https://shannontaggart.substack.com/p/the-hand-in-emerson-hall
I spent the month of March as Artist in Residence at the Harvard Divinity School Center for the Study of World Religions. It was an incredible experience meeting scholars across disciplines, sharing my work, and researching séances held on campus in Emerson Hall in the 1920s with the medium Mina “Margery” Crandon.
1–2. Sign for my talk at the Harvard Divinity School Center for the Study of World Religions, and for my office there.
3. In the stacks at Widener Library, overwhelmed by its many treasures. The building is dedicated to a Harvard alumnus and book collector who died on the Titanic. It is said to be one of the most haunted spots on campus.
4. One of the primary sources I had access to: books donated by Margery’s husband, Le Roi Goddard Crandon, a Boston surgeon, Harvard graduate, and instructor at Harvard Medical School.
5. The testing apparatus used during a séance held as part of the second Harvard investigation of Margery, Emerson Hall, Harvard College, 1925. Courtesy of the Libbet Crandon de Malamud Collection.
6. Margery delivering the ectoplasmic hand said to belong to her deceased brother during a séance, 1925. Courtesy of the Libbet Crandon de Malamud Collection.
7. Notes from a Margery file in Houghton Library.
8. My apartment was just down the block from the former home of William James, founder of Harvard’s psychology department and also founding member of the American Society for Psychical Research.
https://cswr.hds.harvard.edu/news/2026/03/18/medium-harvard
https://shannontaggart.substack.com/p/the-hand-in-emerson-hall
I spent the month of March as Artist in Residence at the Harvard Divinity School Center for the Study of World Religions. It was an incredible experience meeting scholars across disciplines, sharing my work, and researching séances held on campus in Emerson Hall in the 1920s with the medium Mina “Margery” Crandon.
1–2. Sign for my talk at the Harvard Divinity School Center for the Study of World Religions, and for my office there.
3. In the stacks at Widener Library, overwhelmed by its many treasures. The building is dedicated to a Harvard alumnus and book collector who died on the Titanic. It is said to be one of the most haunted spots on campus.
4. One of the primary sources I had access to: books donated by Margery’s husband, Le Roi Goddard Crandon, a Boston surgeon, Harvard graduate, and instructor at Harvard Medical School.
5. The testing apparatus used during a séance held as part of the second Harvard investigation of Margery, Emerson Hall, Harvard College, 1925. Courtesy of the Libbet Crandon de Malamud Collection.
6. Margery delivering the ectoplasmic hand said to belong to her deceased brother during a séance, 1925. Courtesy of the Libbet Crandon de Malamud Collection.
7. Notes from a Margery file in Houghton Library.
8. My apartment was just down the block from the former home of William James, founder of Harvard’s psychology department and also founding member of the American Society for Psychical Research.
https://cswr.hds.harvard.edu/news/2026/03/18/medium-harvard
https://shannontaggart.substack.com/p/the-hand-in-emerson-hall
I spent the month of March as Artist in Residence at the Harvard Divinity School Center for the Study of World Religions. It was an incredible experience meeting scholars across disciplines, sharing my work, and researching séances held on campus in Emerson Hall in the 1920s with the medium Mina “Margery” Crandon.
1–2. Sign for my talk at the Harvard Divinity School Center for the Study of World Religions, and for my office there.
3. In the stacks at Widener Library, overwhelmed by its many treasures. The building is dedicated to a Harvard alumnus and book collector who died on the Titanic. It is said to be one of the most haunted spots on campus.
4. One of the primary sources I had access to: books donated by Margery’s husband, Le Roi Goddard Crandon, a Boston surgeon, Harvard graduate, and instructor at Harvard Medical School.
5. The testing apparatus used during a séance held as part of the second Harvard investigation of Margery, Emerson Hall, Harvard College, 1925. Courtesy of the Libbet Crandon de Malamud Collection.
6. Margery delivering the ectoplasmic hand said to belong to her deceased brother during a séance, 1925. Courtesy of the Libbet Crandon de Malamud Collection.
7. Notes from a Margery file in Houghton Library.
8. My apartment was just down the block from the former home of William James, founder of Harvard’s psychology department and also founding member of the American Society for Psychical Research.
https://cswr.hds.harvard.edu/news/2026/03/18/medium-harvard
https://shannontaggart.substack.com/p/the-hand-in-emerson-hall
I spent the month of March as Artist in Residence at the Harvard Divinity School Center for the Study of World Religions. It was an incredible experience meeting scholars across disciplines, sharing my work, and researching séances held on campus in Emerson Hall in the 1920s with the medium Mina “Margery” Crandon.
1–2. Sign for my talk at the Harvard Divinity School Center for the Study of World Religions, and for my office there.
3. In the stacks at Widener Library, overwhelmed by its many treasures. The building is dedicated to a Harvard alumnus and book collector who died on the Titanic. It is said to be one of the most haunted spots on campus.
4. One of the primary sources I had access to: books donated by Margery’s husband, Le Roi Goddard Crandon, a Boston surgeon, Harvard graduate, and instructor at Harvard Medical School.
5. The testing apparatus used during a séance held as part of the second Harvard investigation of Margery, Emerson Hall, Harvard College, 1925. Courtesy of the Libbet Crandon de Malamud Collection.
6. Margery delivering the ectoplasmic hand said to belong to her deceased brother during a séance, 1925. Courtesy of the Libbet Crandon de Malamud Collection.
7. Notes from a Margery file in Houghton Library.
8. My apartment was just down the block from the former home of William James, founder of Harvard’s psychology department and also founding member of the American Society for Psychical Research.
https://cswr.hds.harvard.edu/news/2026/03/18/medium-harvard
https://shannontaggart.substack.com/p/the-hand-in-emerson-hall
Honored to be in Aperture No. 262, in Shana Lopes’s “Timeline: Photography and Magic.”
Thank you @lopesshana and @aperturefnd for including Séance in this fascinating history!
The 12th annual Symposium at Lily Dale: July 23 - 25, 2026. I cannot wait! It would be great to see you there!
THE ZABRECKY HOUR @robzabrecky * FICTION & THE PARANORMAL + @w3eirdwayz * FRAUD & THE PARANORMAL + @drjackhunter * MATERIALIZATION + Paul Gaunt * PSYCHEDELICS & PSYCHIC CAPACITY + Maria Mangini * STONE TAPE THEORY + @leilataylor * FORTEAN PENNSYLVANIA + @tgrievecarlson * OTHERWORLD + @versace_tamagotchi @otherworldpod * ARTIST AS MAGICIAN + @phantasmaphile * BIBLIOPHANTOMS + @astihustvedt * GEORGE KUCHAR + @lamphole * ANDREW JACKSON DAVIS + @americanmuseumofparamusicology * THE INTEGRATRON + @danieldpaul * WEIRD STUDIES + Phil Ford & JF Martel * ARTISTS- IN-RESIDENCE: @ahwesh_peggy * @guyblakeslee * @movetk & @uparoundthesun * @americanmuseumofparamusicology
An expanded early program begins Monday, July 20 that includes Mediumship 101, Music and Healing, Zabrecky on Houdini, and an epic deep dive into the history of Spiritualism with the one and only Paul Gaunt.
In collaboration with @sacredgroundslilydale @lily_dale_assembly_official
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