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In the 1850s, families began commissioning portraits of their deceased loved ones in a trend that came to be known as "memento mori" photography.
6 dni temu · Step into the past with our captivating video, "60 Stunning Historical Photos You Won’t Believe!" This collection offers a breathtaking look at iconic and ra...
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...
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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.
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.
31 paź 2023 · Haunting Victorian death portraits that show the way families used post-mortem photography in the 1800s as a way to remember the deceased.
