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Dec 16, 2020 · 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.
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.
In an era when photos were expensive and many people didn’t have any pictures of themselves when they were alive, post-mortem photography was a way for families to remember their deceased...
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.
Oct 26, 2017 · In some cases, the album jarringly juxtaposes images of the dead with photos of when they were still alive.
