The apparitionists
Photographers, biography
Photography, history
HISTORY / Social History
Psychics
Photographers
New York Times reviewed
Biography
History
In the early days of photography, in the death-strewn wake of the Civil War, one man seized Americas imagination. A "spirit photographer," William Mumler took portrait photographs that featured the ghostly presence of a lost loved one alongside the living subject. Mumler was a sensation: The affluen…
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