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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.
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...
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.
16 Δεκ 2020 · 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. By capturing the dead on film, Victorian death photos gave families the illusion of control.
11 Οκτ 2021 · The 1800s are not so far away; patent descriptions, images, illustrations, and catalog ads from that era can tell us everything from how Victorians actually cared for their dead to practices...
19 Ιουλ 2017 · Many people find photos of the dead creepy or morbid. No question, postmortem photographs are sorrowful images. They capture the ravages of illness. They depict grieving parents.
Deaths were frequent in the 19th and early 20th centuries and many people – especially children – had no photograph taken of them while living. Post-mortem photography allowed people to have an image of their deceased family members and they used them to remember and mourn loved ones.
