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Jun 4, 2016 · By Bethan Bell. 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 ...
Jul 16, 2017 · Here are the 11 most chilling crime scene photos of celebrities. 1. Marvin Gaye: A Music Legend Killed By His Father. Marvin Gaye Passed Away At His Fathers Hands. Marvin Gaye was a much loved if drug-haunted musician and helped shape the Motown music scene in the 60s to the extent that he was often called The Prince of Motown or the Prince of ...
The photographs in Jeffrey Silverthorne’s new book Morgue, were made in 1972 and 1973, at the state morgue of Rhode Island. The 22 large-format photographs of corpses are intimate but discreet ...
Jul 19, 2017 · It animated a body, astonishing viewers each time they gazed upon it. During the 1840s and early 1850s, a postmortem photo would likely have been the first and only portrait of someone. At $2 each ...
Postmortem Photography. Post-mortem photography began shortly after photography’s introduction in 1839. In these early days, no one really posed the bodies or cleaned them up. A poorer family ...
May 8, 2015 · A dead body's minerals continue to leach into soil months after death (Credit: Getty Images) The microbial biomass within the cadaver decomposition island is greater than in other nearby areas.
Oct 25, 2016 · Her project "About Dying" is a "photo essay from the morgue" that "works as a description of what death looks like." She says, " [It] tries to break down the taboo by showing something we rarely ...
