This colorized image of Lincoln assassination co-conspirator Lewis Powell was taken in 1865, and yet it has a hauntingly-modern appearance.
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The Would-Be Assassin and the Camera
It’s not uncommon to hear someone say that they were haunted by an image, often an old photograph. It is a figurative and evocative expression. To say that an image is haunting is to say that the image has lodged itself in the mind like a ghost might stubbornly take up residence in a house, or that it has somehow gotten a hold of the imagination and in the imagination lives on as a spectral after-image.
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