Mumler's spirit photography featuring Mark Osterman

[mooseontheloose]

Latest video from Vox's "The Darkroom" about trying to recreate Mumler's famous portrait of Mary Todd Lincoln with the ghost of Abraham behind her. Found this quite interesting as I did a lot of research as a university student on a local Winnipeg doctor who did the same thing around the same time (he was not as famous/notorious of course).

 

[Bill Burk]

Mark Osterman is awesome and inspiring.

If you follow him you are liable to pick up a couple projects yourself.

 

[jvo]

hmmm, if nobody can reproduce, maybe they are spirits!!!!

 

[winger]

Very cool. Thanks for sharing this!

 

[mooseontheloose]

Very cool. Thanks for sharing this!

I thought it was interesting as well! I really like the Darkroom series from Vox, they have some pretty interesting videos.

 

[Ian Leake]

Fascinating — thanks for sharing

 

[sionnac]

Loved this, thank you!

 

[mooseontheloose]

Well it seems that my other favourite Youtuber did a video on the same subject (quite coincidentally). It's a different take but has a nice historical photography focus as well, albeit with a different take to the Vox video.