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Capturing Ghosts

27 min • 18 maj 2021

When the early photographer William Mumler developed his glass plates, he sometimes found a ghost had slipped into the picture. Was he a fraud? A medium? A grief counselor?

Author and curator Peter Manseau explains how Mumler found himself at the crossroads of an emerging technology, and a wave of grief for those lost during the Civil War, and how his spirit photography eventually landed him in court.

See the portraits we discuss:

P.T. Barnum, by the Mathew Brady Studio

Cracked-Plate’ Lincoln, by Alexander Gardner

Mary Todd Lincoln, by William Mumler

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