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Conjuration
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CONJURATION. A swearing together. It signifies a plot, bargain, or compact made by a number of persons under oath, to do some public harm. In times of ignorance, this word was used to signify the personal conference which some persons were supposed to have had with the devil, or some evil spirit, to know any secret, or effect any purpose.
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Any photograph is a trick, after all--a conjury of optics and a chemical reaction, which happens below the threshold of sight.
"The Perfect Medium: Photography and the Occult", Metropolitan Museum ... by Armstrong, Carol / Artforum International
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