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I first encountered Victorian spirit photography at the 2005 Metropolitan Museum show. At the time, I found the images amusingly stagy and fantastically faked.
Y’know, what with cellphones being pretty much universal in modern first-world America, having a camera in your pocket at all times, you’d think we would have solved a good chunk of the questions ...
Victorian society clearly had an appetite for Dickens’ warm-hearted wisdom. A Christmas Carol was a smashing success , selling out its first run of 6,000 copies by Christmas Eve. It has never ...
These techniques include using forced perspective for giant or tiny subjects, various methods of “spirit photography”, photographing split images of the same person, pinhole cameras, security cameras ...
You might be seeing ghosts at Castle Kilbride’s latest lecture. On Oct. 12 at 6 p.m., the historic landmark will host “Ghosts in the Shell: The Fascinating Realm of Spirit Photography ...
A new exhibition of photographs is going on display in Plymouth inspired by Devon folklore and using a technique from the Victorian era. Magic Mirror asked participants to share their creativity ...