The Spanish peer-reviewed journal Fonseca – Journal of Communication dedicates a special issue to magic lantern slides. Submissions are welcome in Spanish or English. The Call for Papers is now published on the journal’s website. Deadline for submissions is March 2018. This special issue is edited by the members of the Research Team Salamanca &…

Nele Wynants published the article Binnenkijken in de Werkelijkheid – Sarah Vanagt over Schijnvis / Showfish / Poisson Brillant in the November Issue of the journal FORUM+ Voor Onderzoek en Kunsten. In her article, Nele Wynants traces the history of the projection microscope in the history of scientific magic lantern projections and introduces the work…

Sarah Dellmann from the Team Utrecht has published the article “Beyond and with the object: assessing the dissemination range of lantern slides and their imagery” in Early Popular Visual Culture (14): 4, pp 340-358. In her article, Sarah Dellmann considers the various practical difficulties surrounding material research that begins with archival objects – in her…

Francisco Javier Frutos Esteban and Carmen López San Segundo, project members of the Research Team at Universidad de Salamanca, Spain, have published their article “Las Fantasmagorías de Robertson en Madrid (1821) y la historia natural del signo” (“Robertson’s Phantasmagoria in Madrid (1821) and the Natural History of the Sign” in the Journal Revista Signa 25…

Frutos, Francisco Javier and Carmen López San Segundo have published the article “Media Archeology in Spain. The audiovisual projections with magic lantern (1692–1899)”In Media History.  The article was published online 11 November 2015.