Segment from The Camera Never Lies?

Wish You Were Here

Photographer Alfred Stanley Johnson created a magical world where carrot-tops tickled the clouds and corn cobs were the size of mighty tree trunks. Historian and Radio Producer Erika Janik delights in the work of this Wisconsin Wizard and his Tall Tale Postcards.

Music:
Bliss by Podington Bear
The Riddle Song by Podington Bear

See more images by Alfred Stanley Johnson on the Wisconsin Historical Society’s website.

‘A Mirror With A Memory’

Historian Martha Sandweiss explains how an unusual set of daguerreotypes changed the way she thinks about photography.

Music:

Pigalle by Jahzzar
Filaments by Podington Bear
Red Blood Sun by Ketsa
Euphoric by Podington Bear

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Peter Manseau tells Brian the story of William Mumler, who claimed to capture ghosts in his Civil War-era photographs. But as Mumler’s fame for his so-called spirit photographs grew, so did the doubt that he could commune with the dead at all.

Music:

Conscious Drifting by Ketsa

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Wish You Were Here

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