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Capturing Ghosts
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Length:
27 minutes
Released:
May 18, 2021
Format:
Podcast episode
Description
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
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
Released:
May 18, 2021
Format:
Podcast episode
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