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What happens when fame becomes grim and that very same fascination with their life turns into a fascination for their death? In this list we will dive into the 11 most scandalous celebrity fatalities, blood and motive included.
Pearson, Edmund [Lester]. Portrait photograph. [Pearson (1880-1937) was a leading American crime historian during the first half of the twentieth century and was author of Books in Black or Red , Five Murders, with a Final Note on the Borden Case , More Studies in Murder , among others.
This article lists the recipients of incorrect death reports (not just formal obituaries) from publications, media organisations, official bodies, and widely used information sources; but not mere rumours of deaths.
- Why Did People Take Post-Mortem Photos?
- The Creation of Post-Mortem Photos
- Beyond Victorian Death Photos: Masks, Mourning, and Memento Mori
- Fake Victorian Post-Mortem Photos
In the first half of the 19th century, photography was a new and exciting medium. So the masses wanted to capture life's biggest momentson film. Sadly, one of the most common moments captured was death. Due to the high mortality rates, most people couldn't expect to live past their 40s. And when disease spread, infants and children were especially ...
Photographing dead people may seem like a ghastly task. But in the 19th century, deceased subjects were often easier to capture on film than living ones — because they weren't able to move. Due to the slow shutter speed of early cameras, subjects had to remain still to create crisp images. When people visited studios, photographers would sometimes ...
People in the Victorian era mourned deeply after the death of a loved one — and this mourning certainly wasn't limited to photos. It was common for widows to wear black for years after their husbands died. Some even clipped hair from their dead loved ones and preserved the locks in jewelry. As if that wasn't dark enough, Victorians often surrounded...
Today, some Victorian death photos shared online are actually fakes— or they're photographs of the living mistaken for the dead. Take, for example, a commonly shared image of a man reclining in a chair. "The photographer posed a dead person with his arm supporting the head," many captions claim. But the photograph in question is a picture of the au...
Aug 7, 2022 · 23 Chilling Photos Taken By History’s Most Depraved Serial Killers — Before And After They Killed Their Victims. Taken by the likes of Rodney Alcala, Harvey Glatman, and the BTK Killer, these macabre photos show how some serial killers used photography to lure their victims and relive their horrifying crimes.
Oct 26, 2017 · A macabre genealogy stretches from Mme Debeinche to the reproductions of crime-scene photos that proliferate in true-crime documentaries and dramas today.
Jul 19, 2017 · As a ritual, postmortem photography helped check grief. By pressing subjects to execute specific poses and gestures, death photos helped the living externalize personal loss.
