Camera Clues: A Handbook for Photographic Investigation

CONTENTS

CONTENTS Acknowledgments Vll 1. Introduction 2. The History of Photography 4 The Development of the Photographic Process 4 Daguerreotype: The First Practical Process 6 Ambrotypes: The Early Wet-plate Process 10 Tintypes: Later Wet-plate Photos 12 Glass Negatives, Paper Prints 15 Dry Plates and "Snapshots" 22 The Kodak and Roll Film 24 Popular Photography 25 3. Historical Photo Mysteries 30 Identifying and Dating Old Photographs 30 Originals, Copies, and Fakes 44 Case Studies 54 4. Photography and Identification 69 Photographs for Identification Purposes 69 Identifying People in Old Photographs 76 5. Investigative Photography 98 Photographing Evidence 98 Spectral Techniques 105 Surreptitious Photography III Legal Concerns 115 vi CONTENTS 6. Trick Photography 120 Combining Images 120 Other Camera Tricks 127 Additional Darkroom Deceptions 131 Retouching 133 Computer Technology 137 Detecting Trickery 139 7. Photographing the Paranormal 146 Spirit Photography 147 UFO Snapshots 159 Pictures of Legendary Creatures 169 Photos of Other Paranormal Subjects 177 8. Paranormal Photographs 183 Miracle Pictures 183 Photos by Spirits 192 Psychokinetic Photographs 197 Appendix: Landmarks in Photography 202 Notes 206 Index 227 ...