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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...
15 lip 2017 · For her Beautiful Corpse series, Harris photographed the organs of people alive during the Victorian era—mostly hearts, wombs, and intestinal tissue between 100 and 200 years old preserved in...
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.
Nineteenth-century photograph of a deceased child with flowers. Some images, especially tintypes and ambrotypes have a rosy tint added to the cheeks of the corpse. Later photographs show the subject in a coffin, sometimes with a large group of funeral attendees. This was especially popular in Europe and less common in the United States. [15]
6 paź 2022 · Numerous ancient cultures practiced the art of skinning alive, including the Assyrians and the Popoloca, but examples of people flaying are also present in China during the time of the Ming Dynasty and in Europe during the 16th century.
21 lis 2023 · This heart-wrenching collection of death pics are the final images taken of people’s loved ones before they passed away. Some of the deaths were expected, like in the case of long-term illnesses such as cancer or brain tumors.
31 paź 2023 · One image in the strangely poignant photo collection shows a dead man sitting on an armchair — with his hand carefully positioned to support his head and make him appear alive.
