Jeremy Stolow's book, Picturing Aura, is a historical, anthropological, and philosophical study of modern efforts to visualize the hidden radiant force that envelops the living body, known as the aura. This book traces the rise and global spread of modern instruments and techniques for visualizing the aura, from the late 19th century to the present day, exploring how its images are mobilized in fields as diverse as psychic and parapsychological research, esotericism and occultism, artistic photography, and popular culture, as well as the New Age market for alternative medicine and spirituality. These stories—sometimes complementary, sometimes conflicting—shaped by exchanges between professionals and amateurs, scientists and occultists, countercultural artists and entrepreneurs, metropolitan figures and peripheral actors, show how the aura functions as a frontier object: an ontologically plural entity that is nonetheless useful for various tasks such as making art, healing bodies, or mapping a hidden cosmos.His presentation will introduce some of the book's remarkable protagonists, technologies, and image migrations, while reflecting on the very enterprise of making the aura visible and the challenges it poses to established assumptions about religion, science, and art.