The French equivalent of Mumler Buguet was Édouard Isidore, a photographer who worked in Paris after the War of 1870. He was prosecuted for his work and, at the risk of being imprisoned, Buguet voluntarily admitted that his photographs were fake and gave the team had used to produce them. But this only caused the defenders of Spiritualism him into a martyr for the cause and a medium in spite of himself.
Buguet, like any good salesman, took the notoriety and turned to producing spiritualist tests, engendering a fresh photos leisure industry full of ghosts.
levitatorio Effect. Author: Édouard Isidore Buguet.
Paris, 1875.
Phantom. Author: Theodor Prinz.
Germany, 1900.
a ghost flying around the room. A crude image unbelievable today. But verisimilitude out of almost any suspicion over a hundred years.
Because there is so blind as those who will not see.
No more gullible than they want to believe.
Because there is so blind as those who will not see.
No more gullible than they want to believe.
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