William Hope, a "photographer of spirits" profession

The name of William Hope is suspended in the epicenter of admirers and detractors.He is a relevant figure in the world of parapsychology, especially for being one of the first photographers of spirits., people who had the ability to capture "presences" in their photographic plates.

Maybe at some point it was real.We cannot deny that at some point in his life he would reach to truly pick up something "inexplicable," but the pure truth is that William Hope's name is always associated as one of the first phonies in matters of spiritualism .Let's say he put the first bases to the images "fake" of the supernatural world.

And as such, we must admit that he was an artist...

William Hope, hunter of the strange

Hope was born in Crewe, England in 1863. His youth was between saws and woods, a man who worked very early with the art of his hands: first in the carpentry and then starting in the world of development and photography.

One day, by chance, photographing a fellow professional, he realized that he intuited the outline of something strange in the image obtained. A presence. The friend in particular, identified that female figure as his deceased sister.And he had no doubt, it was she and appeared in that very clear photograph We were in 1905, early twentieth century, where science was already advancing with giant feet, while tradition and interest in everything that escaped the scientific framework, aroused the same interest.It was those days when the world of the paranormal and, more specifically, of spiritualism was opened with impetuity among British society.

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That is why William Hope, after seeing the impact that his photography had caused among friends and neighbors, thought it would be interesting to organize spiritual sessions in Crewe, with the purpose of photographing these meetings to see that he captured his camera.as the famous spiritualist group known as "Crewe Circle" was created.And was there any interesting image of these events? Of course, but the Crewe circle destroyed all the negatives of the photos that were taken for fear of being accused of witchcraft.Only when a famous archbishop named Thomas Colley , a firm enthusiast of the supernatural and spiritualism, joined the circle, they began to publish their work.That is, the photographs of William Hope.

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Photography by William Hope

It was such a fame that he acquired the «Crewe circle» and his ghost photographer, who later of the First World War they were constantly required by the highest British society, from curious to famous as Henry Houdini, through people who simply wanted to contact their deceased relatives-especially soldiers killed in the war-, as was the case with Arthur Conan Doyle.

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