Spirit Photography
Beginning in the 1860s, William Mumler and others sold portraits showing apparent ghosts hovering behind the sitter. These pictures used double exposures and tricks to appeal to a Victorian public grieving and curious about spiritualism.
Spot it
- 01Translucent hovering figure
- 02Misty white veil
- 03Sober studio portrait
Why it happens
A second exposure or a composited plate adds a pale, faint shape to the main portrait, and the semi-transparent figure reads as a ghost overlapped on the scene.
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Image edit prompt“Apply a Victorian spirit-photograph aesthetic to this image: add a faint, pale, translucent shape like a misty veil drifting behind the scene, soft glowing edges, sepia albumen tones, gentle blur, slight plate stains and a quiet, somber studio mood. The apparition is anonymous and abstract. Keep the original subject and composition.”
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