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4 Ιουν 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 Δεκ 2020 · Some relatives opened the dead person's eyes. Photographers and family members sometimes decorated the scene to make the purpose of the photograph clear. In some images, flowers surround the deceased. In others, symbols of death and time — like an hourglass or a clock — mark the portrait as a post-mortem photograph.
11 Οκτ 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...
11 Αυγ 2022 · Flowers surround the corpse in several photos. In others, mortality and time symbols, such as an hourglass, identify the portrait as post-mortem photography. Real Victorian death photos provided families the impression of control by recording the deceased on film.
4 Ιουν 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...
30 Δεκ 2016 · The introduction of the daguerreotype, a 19th century photography technique, enabled Victorians to capture spectral photographs of loved ones which illustrated their attitude towards intimacy...
Post-mortem photography sought to capture more than merely the image of the deceased. A common technique was the “last sleep,” where the deceased’s eyes were closed and they were posed reclining on a bed, a settee or in the arms of a living family member to provide the impression of peaceful rest.
