Title: The apparitionists
Description: In the early days of photography, in the death-strewn wake of the Civil War, one man seized Americas imagination. A "spirit photographer," William Mumler took portrait photographs that featured the ghostly presence of a lost loved one alongside the living subject. Mumler was a sensation: The affluent and influential came calling. Peter Manseau brilliantly captures a nation wracked with grief and hungry for proof of the existence of ghosts and for contact with their dead husbands and sons.
Subjects: Photographers, Psychics, Spirit photography, Biography, History, Photographers, biography, New York Times reviewed, HISTORY / Social History, HISTORY / United States / Civil War Period (1850-1877), PHOTOGRAPHY / History, Mumler, William H, Photographers -- United States -- Biography, Psychics -- United States -- Biography, Spirit photography -- United States -- History -- 19th century
Places: United States
People: William H. Mumler
Time periods: 19th century