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The Apparitionists - A Tale of Phantoms, Fraud, Photography, and the Man Who Captured Lincoln's Ghost (Paperback)
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The Apparitionists - A Tale of Phantoms, Fraud, Photography, and the Man Who Captured Lincoln's Ghost (Paperback)
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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.
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