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

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   Dec 16, 2020 · Some relatives opened the dead person's eyes. Photographers and family members sometimes decorated the scene to make the purpose of the photograph clear. 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.

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

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   Dec 27, 2020 · These characteristics of spirit photography reveal Victorian people’s inclination to believe in the freewill of choice afterlife and the possibility of communicating with deceased loved ones. Death photos and ghost photos are both subject to people’s hope and imagination.

3. 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...

4. www.atlasobscura.com › articles › victorian-postClearing Up Some Myths About Victorian ‘Postmortem’ Photographs

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   Oct 11, 2021 · 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...

5. 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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6. artincontext.org › post-mortem-photographyPost-Mortem Photography – The Art of Real Victorian Death Photos

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   Aug 11, 2022 · Flowers surround the corpse in several photos. In others, mortality and time symbols, such as an hourglass, identify the portrait as post-mortem photography. Real Victorian death photos provided families the impression of control by recording the deceased on film.

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   What is a Victorian death photo?

   • Flowers surround the corpse in several photos. In others, mortality and time symbols, such as an hourglass, identify the portrait as post-mortem photography. Real Victorian death photos provided families the impression of control by recording the deceased on film.

   Post-Mortem Photography - The Art of Real Victorian Death Photos

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   How did post-mortem photography impact the Victorian era?

   • In a period before immunizations and medicine, illnesses such as measles, scarlet fever, and cholera were potentially fatal. Post-mortem photography provided a new means to memorialize a loved one after death, and many Victorian post-mortem photos served as family portraits in their own right.

   Post-Mortem Photography - The Art of Real Victorian Death Photos

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   Are Victorian death images real?

   • Today, numerous Victorian death images circulated online are either forgeries or photographs of the alive misidentified as the dead. Consider a widely circulated photograph of a man lying in a chair. Many subtitles suggest that “the cameraman posed a deceased person with his arm holding the head.”

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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.

   27 Victorian Death Photos - All That's Interesting

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   Why are death photos important in Victorian England?

   • (Bell Betahn) 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.

   Death and Spirit Photos - Victorian Visual Culture

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   Did Victorians have a dead relative in their family photos?

   • The presence of a dead relative in the family photo is not the only aspect of Victorian death culture that would cause many to shudder in discomfort today. Many carried their loved ones’ locks of hair, and even more had this hair made into jewelry or woven with other strands to make a family hair wreath.

   Death, Immortalized: Victorian Post-Mortem Photography

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8. clarabartonmuseum.org › post-mortem-photographyDeath, Immortalized: Victorian Post-Mortem Photography

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   Feb 19, 2019 · A greater understanding of the meanings behind practices such as post-mortem photography, however, allows a modern viewer to see an image for what it was: a comforting reminder that a loved one was merely “at rest” and waiting for a heavenly reunion.