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4 cze 2016 · In images that are both unsettling and strangely poignant, families pose with the dead, infants appear asleep, and consumptive young ladies elegantly recline, the disease not only taking their...
31 paź 2023 · These are the haunting Victorian death portraits that show the way middle-class families used post-mortem photography in the 1800s as a way to remember lost loved ones. In this photo, the...
16 gru 2020 · In Victorian England, post-mortem photography became a popular way to commemorate the dead. Before long, this macabre trend spread all across the globe. During this era, infants and children were especially vulnerable to disease.
3 lip 2018 · In these images, which can seem quite disturbing and eerie to many of us in the modern day, mothers pose with their dead child in their arms, babies lie in their bed and look like they’re asleep, young siblings stand around their dead brother or sister.
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.
20 paź 2014 · Known as post-mortem photography, these haunting shots where produced shortly after passing. They featured the deceased dressed in fancy attire, surrounded by loved ones or flower wreaths. Some corpses were even propped up with painted eyelids to appear alive.
19 mar 2013 · A photo shoot with a dead baby may sound morbid, especially in a culture that tends to be uncomfortable with death. But remembrance photography provides grieving parents with lasting memories of their children who lived so briefly that little else exists to remember them by.
