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The Strange Case of William Mumler, Spirit Photographer
Louis Kaplan
出版U of Minnesota Press, 2008
主題Photography / Individual Photographers / GeneralHistory / United States / Civil War Period (1850-1877)Photography / History
ISBN08166515669780816651566
URLhttp://books.google.com.hk/books?id=ElbTA9OFyAkC&hl=&source=gbs_api
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註釋In the 1860s, William Mumler photographed ghostsa or so he claimed. Faint images of the dearly departed lurked in the background with the living, like his well-known photo of the recently assassinated Abraham Lincoln comforting Mary Todd. The practice came to be known as spirit photography, and some believed Mumler was channeling the dead. Skeptics, however, called it a fraudulent trick on the gullible, taking advantage of the grieving at a time of suffering and loss. Mumlera s insistence that his work brought back the dead led to a sensational trial in 1869 that was the talk of the nation.