William H. Mumler
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| William H. Mumler | |
|---|---|
| Born | mid-to-late May 1832 [1] Boston, Massachusetts |
| Died | 16 May 1884 (51) Boston, Massachusetts |
| Workplace(s) | Photo-Electrotype Co. (from 1877) |
| Affiliations | Photography studio of H. F. Stuart |
| Spouse(s) | Hannah Frances Green (m. 1864) |
William Howard Mumler (May 1832 - May 16, 1884) was an American engraver and photographer, arguably the first widely known spiritual photographer, a trade that he began practising professionally as a medium in 1861, continuing until he was charged with fraud, conspiracy, and larceny in New York in 1869 and subsequently retired to pursue more conventional photography. It has been proposed by Felicity Hamer that the photography studio where Mumler made his original foray into photography was owned by his wife, Hannah Frances Mumler, mesmeric physician and medium, under the name H. F. Stuart.[2]
Selected Bibliography
- Mumler, William H. (1875), The Personal Experiences of William H. Mumler in Spirit-Photography, Boston: Colby and Rich
Reading
- Kaplan, Louis (2008), The Strange Case of William Mumler, Spirit Photographer, Univ. of Minnesota Press, https://www.amazon.com/Photographer-Fesler-Lampert-Minnesota-Heritage-Paperback/dp/0816651574/?tag=apopheniacs-20
- Hamer, Felicity Tsering Chödron (2015), The Role of Women in Victorian-era Spirit Photography: A New Narrative, https://spectrum.library.concordia.ca/980537/7/Hamer_MA_F2015%20.pdf
- Manseau, Peter (2017), The Apparitionists: A Tale of Phantoms, Fraud, Photography, and the Man Who Captured Lincoln's Ghost, New York: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, https://www.amazon.com/Apparitionists-Phantoms-Photography-Captured-Lincolns/dp/0544745973/?tag=apopheniacs-20
Resources
- Spirit photographs attributed to William H. Mumler, getty.edu (J. Paul Getty Museum), https://www.getty.edu/art/collection/artists/8627/william-h-mumler-american-1832-1884/
References
- ↑ "Obituary of William H. Mumler", The Photographic Times 14 (42): 304, June 1884, https://books.google.com/books?id=8LUaAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA304, "He was born in Hanover Street, Boston, in 1832, and if he had lived a few days longer would have reached his fifty-second year."
- ↑ Hamer, M.A. thesis, 2015.