Ghosts In The Photographs

I'm sorting through abandoned family photographs and suddenly I'm creeped out by an overwhelming sense of… melancholy? The subjects are long dead but the spirit of the photos linger on.

Years ago Jim assembled a collection of 19th century cartes-de-visite and cabinet cards, all made by Rochester photographers. They are what antique store dealers refer to as "instant ancestors." Jim made quite a little research project of organizing them by photographer. We tried the give the whole bunch to...