The curious business of spirit photography that was spooky and controversial, 1860-1875

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There are several accounts from the 1850s describing the unexplained appearance in photographs of translucent figures representing the departed. According to Owen Davies in The Haunted: A Social History of Ghosts, ghost photography started with photographic experimentation using people standing in front of and behind glass windows or noting that the long exposures required at […]

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