'The Apparitionists' Raises The Specters That Haunted America
Peter Manseau skillfully weaves together spirituality, technology and the legacy of the Civil War to tell the story of a
"...photography was an act of mythmaking."
There's a sense of a museum exhibit in Peter Manseau's . The centerpiece of the book is the trial of William Mumler, a photographer in Boston (and later New York) accused of defrauding people with his claims that he could take "spirit photographs" — portraits that included a spectral subject alongside the living. But no man photographs ghosts in
