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Capturing Ghosts
Manage episode 292771838 series 2519747
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
72 episodi
Manage episode 292771838 series 2519747
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
72 episodi
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