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06-30-2016, 10:57 PM
1860s 'spirit photos' were spooky and controversial
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Spirit photography, a method that supposedly captured images of ghosts on film, emerged from a small Boston portrait studio in 1861 and immediately captured the attention of a national audience. William H. Mumler invented the genre and was its most prominent early proponent.
Mumler was neither a photographer **r a medium. He originally worked as a silver engraver, while dabbling in photography in the local studio of a woman named Mrs. Stuart. One day in 1861, in the midst of developing a self-portrait, Mumler reported that the dim figure of a young cousin who had died twelve years earlier emerged in the final print. Read more... (http://mashable.com/2016/06/30/mumler-spirit-photos/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial)
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Spirit photography, a method that supposedly captured images of ghosts on film, emerged from a small Boston portrait studio in 1861 and immediately captured the attention of a national audience. William H. Mumler invented the genre and was its most prominent early proponent.
Mumler was neither a photographer **r a medium. He originally worked as a silver engraver, while dabbling in photography in the local studio of a woman named Mrs. Stuart. One day in 1861, in the midst of developing a self-portrait, Mumler reported that the dim figure of a young cousin who had died twelve years earlier emerged in the final print. Read more... (http://mashable.com/2016/06/30/mumler-spirit-photos/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial)
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