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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 · Photography offered a new way to remember a loved one after death — and many Victorian death photos became family portraits of sorts. They often depicted mothers cradling their deceased children or fathers watching over their children's deathbeds.
19 Μαΐ 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.
11 Αυγ 2022 · In a period before immunizations and medicine, illnesses such as measles, scarlet fever, and cholera were potentially fatal. Post-mortem photography provided a new means to memorialize a loved one after death, and many Victorian post-mortem photos served as family portraits in their own right.
Often the resulting photos were hand-colored or tinted to add a lifelike blush to pale or mottled skin, concealing the realities of illness and death and further enhancing the image of serene and untroubled sleep.
19 Φεβ 2019 · A greater understanding of the meanings behind practices such as post-mortem photography, however, allows a modern viewer to see an image for what it was: a comforting reminder that a loved one was merely “at rest” and waiting for a heavenly reunion.
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...
