"πΏππ ππππππ πππππ ππππ, ππ ππππππ - ππππππ ππππ ππ ππππ." - Ruth Robbins π·π·π·π·π·π·π· As you read this, more likely than not on a device with a built-in camera that fits in your hand, it's hard to imagine a time before photography... but it existed. A time when artists were playing with light boxes and capturing shadows. A time when only the dead could afford to be photographed. A time when the living believed that their spirits returned. Early photography processes demanded the complete stillness of their subjects. The phenomenon that would come to be known as 'spirit photography' was thus discovered accidentally. It occured when the camera captured a moving person as an ethereal presence. Whilst it may seem obvious to us, photographers as we are, the ignorance of many in the Victorian era could be counted on. Opening their minds to anything, and their wallets too, the grieving became the target of charlatans. By my calculations, these tricksters make up a third of those interested in the ghostly - in Victoria's day, before her, and beyond. The remaining thirds, are those who truly believe and those who are having fun. π€: Which are you? Deceiever, believer, or in it for the lols? π πΈ: Ghost, c. 1935, in the Kodak Collection . #glimpsesofghosts #ghosts #victorianghosts #ghost #spirits #victorianengland #queenvictoria #victorianhistory #history #victorianera #englishliterature #gothic #generallygothic #bookish #bookstagram #darkacademia #academia #spookynerd #spooky #haunted #photography #historyofphotography #blackandwhitephotography #darkhistory #spiritphotography #kodak #oldphotograph https://www.instagram.com/p/CFS2sroAPtH/?igshid=16j7ef8kseiid
