Binding: Paperback
Description: In the early days of photography in the death - strewn wake of the Civil War one man seized America's imagination. A spirit photographer William Mumler took portrait photographs that featured the ghostly presence of lost loved ones alongside his living subjects. At a time when artists like Mathew Brady were remaking American culture with their cameras Mumler was a sensation: the affluent and influential came calling including Mary Todd Lincoln. It took a circuslike trial of Mumler on fraud charges starring P. T. Barnum for the prosecution to expose a fault line of doubt and manipulation. And even then the judge's stunning verdict suggested no one would ever solve the mystery of how Mumler did it. This forgotten puzzle offers a vivid snapshot of America at a crossroads in its history a nation in thrall to new technology while grasping desperately for something to believe in.
Title: The Apparitionists A Tale Of Phantoms Fraud Photography And The Man Who Captured Lincoln's Ghost
Author(s): Manseau Peter
Publisher: Harpercollins
Barcode: 9781328557063
Pages: 352 Pages
Language: English
Publication Date: 10/9/2018