{"id":7213,"date":"2025-01-23T16:06:33","date_gmt":"2025-01-23T21:06:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/torch.cci.fsu.edu\/~lis5313\/?p=7213"},"modified":"2025-01-23T16:09:51","modified_gmt":"2025-01-23T21:09:51","slug":"solar-apparitions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/torch.cci.fsu.edu\/~lis5313\/index.php\/2025\/01\/23\/solar-apparitions\/","title":{"rendered":"Solar Apparitions"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Corona of the Sun during a Solar Eclipse<\/em> by Thomas Smillie, Public Domain<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
Apparitions<\/em> by Zenboy1955, licensed under cc 3.0<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

I’ve been seeing a lot of news stories about the planetary alignment that is supposed to happening over the next few days. When I began to research for this assignment, I began looking for astrophotography. I ended up settling on the above photo<\/a>, taken in Wadesboro, NC by Thomas Smillie in 1900. There is a large collection of his photographs and cyanotypes on display on the Smithsonian website; Smillie was the first official Smithsonian photographer and the first curator of photography at the museum. I’d highly recommend looking at his work if<\/a> you’re interested in early photography or the history of the Smithsonian.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This particular photo caught my eye because of the striking composition, but also the scratchiness of the background. The combination of the subject matter and the way the film was processed gives the photo an eerie, unsettling quality, not unlike that of early horror films. When I was searching for an audio track to include with the photo, Apparitions<\/em> felt like it appropriately captured that sense of unease. The combination of these two works together, to me, feels evocative of the kind of superstitious dread you might feel when you’ve just watched a scary movie and then have to walk up a dark flight of stairs. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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