1860s 'spirit photos' were spooky and controversial
 

1860s 'spirit photos' were spooky and controversial
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Image: William Mumler/J. Paul Getty Museum/Courtesy of the Getty’s Open Content Program

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...

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