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    • RONI HORN
  • STILL LIVES
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ADVENTURES IN SPIRIT PHOTOGRAPHY: VICTORIAN GHOSTIES!

October 29, 2014  /  Eileen Mueller

An image of Master Herrod with a ghost. William H. Mumler, 1868.

An image of Master Herrod with a ghost. William H. Mumler, 1868.

Mrs. Bentley and the spirit of her deceased sister, Wylie, c. 1920.

Mrs. Bentley and the spirit of her deceased sister, Wylie, c. 1920.

And of course, the most sophisticated and confounding spirit photograph of all time, the pinnacle of hoax imagery, and the level of representation we all aspire to:

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