Smile for the Dead: An Examination of Spirit Photography
1869: William H Mumler stood trial for fraud in New York for claiming to photograph spirits of customers' deceased loved ones. Mumler walked free as experts of the day could not figure his methods. Was he a fraud? Or could he truly photograph the dead?
Hamilton Young Ward
Mark Osterman
Crista Cloutier
Felicity T.C. Hamer
Leslie Young-Ward