'In the 1860s, William Mumler photographed ghosts--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 ...

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Mumler was not alone in his attempts to manipulate photography for purposes of prank and profit. Photo manipulation is nearly as old as photography itself, and what Mumler lacked in Photoshop, he made ...

Simply sign up to the Life & Arts myFT Digest -- delivered directly to your inbox. In March 1861, Boston jewellery engraver and amateur photographer William Mumler accidentally made a double exposure ...

It all started by a fluke. Boston metal engraver William Mumler was learning how to photograph in the 1860s, not long after the invention of the camera when one day, he noticed that in one of his ...

Professor Louis Kaplan allows history to speak in its own words for most of The Strange Case of William Mumler, Spirit Photographer. He couldn't have made a more enlightening or entertaining choice.

Ghost photography, dating back to the mid-19th century, intertwines with the evolution of camera tech. William Mumler's spirit photo in the 1860s sparked a trend during a spiritualism surge post-Civil ...

Let's say you're interested in ghosts, but haven't had any luck photographing them on any of your nocturnal visits to local cemeteries and abandoned insane asylums. The ghost-hunting guys on TV seem ...

In January 2021, a photograph of former first lady Mary Todd Lincoln garnered newfound attention. The picture appeared to show Abraham Lincoln's ghost situated behind her. The old glass-plate ...