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1. www.bbc.com › news › uk-england-36389581Taken from life: The unsettling art of death photography - BBC

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   Jun 4, 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...

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3. allthatsinteresting.com › victorian-death-photos27 Victorian Death Photos - All That's Interesting

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   • 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 ...

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   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 ...

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   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...

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   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...

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4. the-line-up.com › post-mortem-photographyPost-Mortem Photography: How the Victorians Remembered Their Dead

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   Oct 20, 2014 · The eerie Victorian ritual of post-mortem photography ushered in a new era of family portraits – for the living and the dead. Grieving families soon took up the new technology to create everlasting mementos of the dearly departed.

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5. www.abc.net.au › news › 2015/06/27Victorian-era photographs of the dead reveal moments of ...

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   Researchers are collecting photos of the dead, including images of deceased infants, for a planned exhibition that will examine how photographers deal with challenging subjects.

6. www.atlasobscura.com › articles › victorian-postClearing Up Some Myths About Victorian 'Postmortem ...

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   Fake postmortem photos, whether categorized in error or intentionally mislabeled to sell for profit, have in recent years become widespread on the Internet. They fill online galleries of...

7. www.mentalfloss.com › article › 90118“Mirrors With Memories”: Why Did Victorians Take Pictures of ...

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   Mar 11, 2024 · Photos of the dead were kept as keepsakes, displayed in homes, sent to friends and relatives, worn inside lockets, or even carried as pocket mirrors. Photographing the dead, however, was...

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   How did Victorian death photos work?

   • 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.

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   Why did Victorian families use post-mortem photos?

   • For many grieving families of the time, a post-mortem photograph was often the only image they had of their child. Thanks to high mortality rates and the rampant spread of disease, death was everywhere during the Victorian era. So many people came up with creative ways to remember the dead — including Victorian death photos.

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   Are Victorian death photos easy to identify?

   • As you might expect, Victorian death photos are often easy to identify because of their lack of blurring. After all, subjects in these portraits did not blink or shift suddenly. Unlike many portraits, which were taken in photo studios, post-mortem photos were usually taken at home.

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   What was life like in Victorian times?

   • "The very high infant mortality rate, the idea that there were no drugs, there were no antibiotics. "You could cut yourself on a rusty nail and be dead within a few days. Death was something that actually stalked people on a daily basis." Taking post-mortem photos, or memento mori, of the dead was common in Victorian times.

   Victorian-era photographs of the dead reveal moments of tenderness

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   Did Victorians take post-mortem photos of the dead?

   • Taking post-mortem photos, or memento mori, of the dead was common in Victorian times. Often they were of babies or young children who fell victim to rampant diseases, but few of those post-mortem photos remain. Mr Kimber trawled through the archives of Adelaide's State Library with archivist Jenny Scott in a hunt for them.

   Victorian-era photographs of the dead reveal moments of tenderness

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   What is a 19th-century Victorian death photo?

   • In this likely 19th-century Victorian death photo, a mother and father pose with their daughter. Both parents are blurry, a side effect of them moving during the exposure, while the daughter remains completely still. When the president of Ecuador died in 1875, his body was embalmed and photographed in his uniform.

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9. victorianvisualculture.blog › 2020/12/27 › death-andDeath and Spirit Photos - Victorian Visual Culture

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   Dec 27, 2020 · Contrary to mainstream modern sensibilities about death photos, photographs of loved ones taken posthumously served as an important way of remembering the dead and soothing the pain of loss in Victorian England.