microrobert
08-27-2013, 04:45 AM
William H. Mumler, Spirit Photographs, Amazed Audiences With Ghostly Images
If you look closely at these photos -- and even if you don't -- there's more than a ghost of a chance that you might see what looks like spirits or apparitions.
The paranormal pics are the work of William H. Mumler, (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Mumler) a mid-1800s engraver in Boston who rose to fame as a "spirit photographer."
Mumler's stock-in-trade was taking photos of people whose relatives died during the Civil War and making it look as if the spirits of their souls were also posing.
http://i.huffpost.com/gen/1312974/thumbs/o-SPIRITPHOTO1-570.jpg?6
Mumler's most famous photo was of Mary Todd Lincoln with the ghostly image of President Abe Lincoln in the background. His work was so popular for a time that he was able to charge $10 for a picture (http://www.amphilsoc.org/exhibits/spirits/today.htm) at a time when other photographers charged a fraction of that, according to the American Philosophical Society.
William H. Mumler, Spirit Photographs, Amazed Audiences With Ghostly Images (http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/08/22/spirit-photographs-_n_3795717.html)
If you look closely at these photos -- and even if you don't -- there's more than a ghost of a chance that you might see what looks like spirits or apparitions.
The paranormal pics are the work of William H. Mumler, (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Mumler) a mid-1800s engraver in Boston who rose to fame as a "spirit photographer."
Mumler's stock-in-trade was taking photos of people whose relatives died during the Civil War and making it look as if the spirits of their souls were also posing.
http://i.huffpost.com/gen/1312974/thumbs/o-SPIRITPHOTO1-570.jpg?6
Mumler's most famous photo was of Mary Todd Lincoln with the ghostly image of President Abe Lincoln in the background. His work was so popular for a time that he was able to charge $10 for a picture (http://www.amphilsoc.org/exhibits/spirits/today.htm) at a time when other photographers charged a fraction of that, according to the American Philosophical Society.
William H. Mumler, Spirit Photographs, Amazed Audiences With Ghostly Images (http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/08/22/spirit-photographs-_n_3795717.html)