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Oct 27, 2017 · Known as memento mori (which means “remember you must die”), the trend became increasingly popular for a period of time, and even Queen Victoria slept underneath a photo of her dead husband.
Jun 4, 2016 · In images that are both unsettling and strangely poignant, families pose with the dead, infants appear asleep, and consumptive young ladies elegantly recline, the disease not only taking their...
Oct 31, 2023 · Haunting Victorian death portraits that show the way families used post-mortem photography in the 1800s as a way to remember the deceased.
Photos After Death: Post‑Mortem Portraits Preserved Dead Family. What if your first photo was taken after you died? By: Becky Little. Updated: October 5, 2023 | Original: October 23, 2018. copy...
Dec 29, 2017 · An eyebrow-raising 007, a women’s cricket pioneer, Mr Saturday night... Who died in the past 12 months? Take a look at some of the famous faces no longer with us at the end of 2017.
Jul 19, 2017 · By pressing subjects to execute specific poses and gestures, death photos helped the living externalize personal loss. The faces of many mourners evidence the struggle.
Oct 26, 2017 · More than a century after Mme Debeinche’s death, the crime-scene photographs offer specifics about her life—her penchant for floral upholstery, her appreciation of shaggy carpets—that ...
