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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 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.
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.
Jul 19, 2017 · Many people find photos of the dead creepy or morbid. No question, postmortem photographs are sorrowful images. They capture the ravages of illness. They depict grieving parents.
Oct 25, 2016 · Ahead, 19 striking photos show what death really looks like, with captions from the photographer.
Oct 23, 2018 · 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...
opular culture romanticized and eroticized dead women during the Victorian Age. In the late 188. s, the body of a young woman was pulled from the River Seine in Paris (Casale). With no signs of physical harm, the woman’s death was ruled a suicide and, as was the custom of the time, her body was displayed. at the mortuary in the hopes that she ...
