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4 cze 2016 · Photographs of loved ones taken after they died may seem morbid to modern sensibilities. But in Victorian England, they became a way of commemorating the dead and blunting the sharpness of...
16 gru 2020 · Illnesses like scarlet fever, measles, and cholera could be a death sentence for young people in an era before vaccines and antibiotics. Photography offered a new way to remember a loved one after death — and many Victorian death photos became family portraits of sorts.
19 maj 2012 · When a child or other family member died, families would often have a photograph taken before burial. Many times it was the first and last photograph they would ever possess of their loved one. Many postmortem photographs were close-ups of the face or shots of the full body.
11 paź 2021 · Too-stiff posture, unnatural-looking eyes, or eerie shadows can easily start a photo’s postmortem career, and much of this supposed evidence is, again, just evidence of an older photography...
Post-mortem photography is the practice of photographing the recently deceased. Various cultures use and have used this practice, though the best-studied area of post-mortem photography is that of Europe and America. [1]
11 sie 2022 · In a period before immunizations and medicine, illnesses such as measles, scarlet fever, and cholera were potentially fatal. Post-mortem photography provided a new means to memorialize a loved one after death, and many Victorian post-mortem photos served as family portraits in their own right.
27 paź 2017 · Known as memento mori (which means “remember you must die”), the trend became increasingly popular for a period of time, and even Queen Victoria slept underneath a photo of her dead husband.
