Looking for the trick, he sat as still as a statue before the camera lens while Mumler counted off the seconds on his watch. Livermore, himself a spiritualist, had been sent by the New York Sun as part of a team of investigators preparing a report on the photographer. It was there that he photographed a Wall Street financier named Charles Livermore. He had taken roughly 500 photographs and bought a studio at 630 Broadway. Associated Newspapers, 10 August 2018.By early 1869, he was the best-known practitioner of spirit photography in New York. “Creepy Character ‘Momo’ Used in ‘Suicide Games’ Spreads Online.” Daily Mail Online. “The Perfect Medium: Photography and the Occult.” (online). “Aboriginal Customs and Protocols.” (online) Available online here. Science in Wonderland: The Scientific Fairy Tales of Victorian Britain. The Strange Case of William Mumler, Spirit Photographer. “Posmrtna fotografija.” Radio Študent, 6 October 2012. “Panic over Russian Company’s FaceApp Is a Sign of New Distrust of the Internet.” The Washington Post. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press. Men, Women, and Chain Saws: Gender in the Modern Horror Film. The Philosophy of Horror or Paradoxes of the Heart. “The Ontology of the Photographic Image.” Film Quarterly 13 (4): 4–9.Ĭarroll, Noël. Oxford: Radcliffe Publishing.īazin, André. Soul Matters – Spiritual dimensions within Healthcare. an invasion of giant insects and carnivorous plants in the 50s as a consequence of American fear of a communist invasion), the article explores the issue of photography as the main antagonist in the horror genre of the 21st century and whether this means that it appears as the universal fear of digital identity, surveillance, and identity theft.Īghadiuno, Mabel. While the theory of horror claims that horror uses specific iconography of fear to reflect the common fears of the time (e.g. Films like The Ring, The Others, Peeping Tom, and The Invisible Man demonstrate how frequently uncanny photography appears in the horror film genre and open questions about the reasons of such depictions. There are also reports of some peoples that allegedly also consider the soul to be closely bound to photography and in consequence abhor photography, as the film is supposedly capable of capturing and depriving the photographed person of their soul. A notorious example is the case of photographer William Mumler who offered well-off relatives of recently deceased people in the States to make portraits with the ghosts of their loved ones.
We can trace the origin of such depictions to the very invention of the technique of photography in the 19th century, which was also the heyday of spiritualist theories about photography making the soul of the deceased visible to the human eye using chemical compounds. In contemporary horror, the photographic image is often used as the object of horror or even represents the main antagonist of the story.
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