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GRAPHIC Gadhafi death video. Images reported to be of a bleeding Moammar Gadhafi, moments after his capture, have surfaced. (WARNING: GRAPHIC CONTENT)
- Why Did People Take Post-Mortem Photos?
- The Creation of Post-Mortem Photos
- Beyond Victorian Death Photos: Masks, Mourning, and Memento Mori
- Fake Victorian Post-Mortem Photos
In the first half of the 19th century, photography was a new and exciting medium. So the masses wanted to capture life's biggest momentson film. Sadly, one of the most common moments captured was death. Due to the high mortality rates, most people couldn't expect to live past their 40s. And when disease spread, infants and children were especially ...
Photographing dead people may seem like a ghastly task. But in the 19th century, deceased subjects were often easier to capture on film than living ones — because they weren't able to move. Due to the slow shutter speed of early cameras, subjects had to remain still to create crisp images. When people visited studios, photographers would sometimes ...
People in the Victorian era mourned deeply after the death of a loved one — and this mourning certainly wasn't limited to photos. It was common for widows to wear black for years after their husbands died. Some even clipped hair from their dead loved ones and preserved the locks in jewelry. As if that wasn't dark enough, Victorians often surrounded...
Today, some Victorian death photos shared online are actually fakes— or they're photographs of the living mistaken for the dead. Take, for example, a commonly shared image of a man reclining in a chair. "The photographer posed a dead person with his arm supporting the head," many captions claim. But the photograph in question is a picture of the au...
Shocking video has emerged of a woman being publicly executed by Al Qaeda for allegedly committing adultery.
Oct 26, 2017 · When the Paris police investigated Madame Debeinche’s May 1903 murder, they began by photographing the crime scene. And while that might seem mundane to anyone accustomed to TV police ...
Oct 9, 2014 · It is true that even in the erotic pictures of Edith, and there are a few, such as one with splayed legs (Seated Semi-Nude, 1916), or one embracing her husband from behind, while he places his hand on his genitals (Embrace 1, 1915), she looks demure, indeed a little embarrassed.
Jul 19, 2017 · By the 1860s, death photos began explicit attempts to animate the corpse. Dead bodies sit in chairs, posed in the act of playing or reading. In one striking tintype dated 1859, a young boy...
Mar 16, 2024 · Publicized Photos Of Kurt Cobain's Death And The Crime Scene. Kurt Cobain's suicide photos were taken by responding officers from the Seattle Police Department inside the greenhouse at Cobain's home, shortly after he was discovered on April 8, 1994. None of the photos show Kurt Cobain's body of face in full.
