With his accidental creation of the world’s first haunted portrait, Mumler would inadvertently pioneer the field of spirit photography—and its attendant industry. Mumler was soon charging ...

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This photo was taken by William Mumler in the early 1870s. It was Mumler's work that put spirit photography on the map. Most photography professors wrap up the semester with a final student show.

And as these creepy vintage photos of spirit photography illustrate, the eerie movement provides a haunting look into the past. According to History, spirit photography began in the 1860s.

Scholars of fields from anthropology to art history have explored the association between photographs and ghosts. This association is exaggerated by spirit photography, which are portraits that ...

There is nothing new under the sun: the history of the photo editing is almost as old as photography itself. Spirit photography was first widely employed by William H. Mumler in the 1860s ...

But photo manipulation caused particularly hot debate in one field: “spirit photography.” Amid the spiritualism movement after the Civil War, many bereaved Americans became convinced they ...

William H Mumler created what is known as the First 'Spirit Photograph.' Spirit photography, as it sounds, is a type of photography that tries to capture pictures of the spirits of dead people.

Or maybe it’s just the wrongness of the whole thing. But even knowing what we know about spirit photography today, there’s no denying that many ghost photos taken years, decades, or even ...

One of the most popular aspects of the spiritualist movement was the rise of spirit photography, in which photographers claimed to have captured ghosts on film. One famous example is a photograph ...

Arun Rath: As she said, it was the birthplace of the spiritualist press, spirit photography and media for mediums. It was also home to some of the most famous spirit mediums — real superstars of the ...