Houdini And The Ghost Of Abraham Lincoln – Antique Wall Art
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Few images capture their era like this historic image of Houdini And The Ghost Of Abraham Lincoln. It is part of the Snapshots of the Past archive, gathered over 25 years of research.
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Houdini And The Ghost Of Abraham Lincoln
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A lantern slide pairing Houdini with a ghostly Abraham Lincoln turns a spirit photograph into a trick on the viewer. The image draws on the spirit photography craze of the early 1920s, when photographers used double exposures to place faint, apparently supernatural figures beside living sitters. Harry Price, a psychical researcher and librarian of the Magicians' Club of London, laid out the method in his 1922 article "Cold Light on Spiritualistic Phenomena," which Houdini admired as an exposé. Houdini spent much of his later career unmasking mediums, and this slide shows how easily a camera could be made to lie.
| Created / published | c. 1920-1930 |
|---|---|
| Medium | slide, lantern |
| Notes | SUMMARY: Was that a spirit or a double exposure? Harry Price was a member of the Society for Psychical Research, Librarian of the Magicians' Club of London and a member of the Society of American Magicians when, in 1922, his article Cold Light on Spiritualistic Phenomena" was published in the "Journ |
| Original scan | 1,800 × 1,546 px · prints to 6 × 5 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | 3a27314_HoudiniandtheghostofAbrahamLin |
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