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The photographs in Jeffrey Silverthorne’s new book Morgue, were made in 1972 and 1973, at the state morgue of Rhode Island. The 22 large-format photographs of corpses are intimate but discreet.
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...
3 kwi 2024 · Tragedy often strikes when least expected, and sometimes only a single poignant photograph captured the final moment before a person’s (or persons’) life — unbeknownst to them — was ...
4 wrz 2023 · From serial killers like Ted Bundy and Jeffrey Dahmer to the slayings of the Manson Family, these real crime scene photos capture history's grisliest murders.
16 mar 2024 · Dead from an apparent suicide by a gunshot to the head, the grunge icon was gone at the age of just 27. Twenty years later, photos from the scene of Kurt Cobain's death were released, allowing the world to confront this tragedy like never before.
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] .
25 paź 2016 · In her photo series About Dying, photographer Cathrine Ertmann confronts the space between death and burial with unflinching photos from the morgue.
