Αποτελέσματα Αναζήτησης
This was indicative of the community's role in death, before societal norms shifted the experience of death to be much more personal and private. In 1940, photographs of the deceased, their casket, or grave stone with documentation of the funeral and wake are rare.
18 Δεκ 2018 · In most modern cultures, photography has become some sort of defense against death. Funeral services and obituaries frequently feature images of the memorialized in their prime, and images of deceased relatives adorn the walls and tables of countless homes.
10 Νοε 2021 · What does it mean to remember? For some, remembrance means capturing an image, documenting not just a life, but a death. In the nineteenth century, photographers were often called upon to do postmortem photography, capturing the stillness of the final moment.
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...
19 Ιουλ 2017 · Some postmortem photos still portrayed peaceful, domestic images of the dead. But the faces in those images are mostly Latin American, Eastern European, and working class.
11 Αυγ 2022 · It was standard practice in the Victorian period to capture dead young children in the embrace of their mothers. Some photographs, particularly ambrotypes, have a pink tinge applied to the corpse’s cheeks. Later images show the victim in a coffin, often surrounded by a big crowd of mourners.
11 Οκτ 2021 · In a post ostensibly showing Victorian postmortem photos, number eight on the list is an image that has been passed around many corners of the Internet—Viralnova quotes the photo source as Tumblr.
