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Jul 16, 2017 · Some were murdered, others tried for murder, and others only became a celebrity after their untimely death, but one thing they all have in common is the photos that captured their rare moments of mortality.
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.
Jun 4, 2016 · The whole household - including a cat - has gathered round a dead child on the floor, who is posed as if sleeping. Death portraiture became increasingly popular. Victorian nurseries were...
Nineteenth-century photograph of a deceased child with flowers. Some images, especially tintypes and ambrotypes have a rosy tint added to the cheeks of the corpse. Later photographs show the subject in a coffin, sometimes with a large group of funeral attendees. This was especially popular in Europe and less common in the United States. [15] .
Nov 3, 2015 · When beloved celebrities die prematurely, the scenes of their deaths become an eery part of pop culture lore. This home, for example, located at 171 Lake Washington Boulevard East, in Seattle...
The postmortem examiner surveys the body's surface, opens it up with surgical instruments, removes parts for microscopic inspection and toxicological analysis, and makes a report that attempts to reconstruct the cause, manner and mechanism of death.
Mar 27, 2017 · Robert Shults, photograph from The Washing Away of Wrongs, with graduate students Nandar Yukyi, Lauren Meckel, Annie Riegert, and Audrey Schaefer burying a body (courtesy the artist)
