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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 ...
Jul 19, 2017 · As it did, the aspirations for postmortem photos also rose. 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.
Post-mortem photography is the practice of photographing the recently deceased. Various cultures use and have used this practice, though the best-studied area of post-mortem photography is that of Europe and America. [1] There can be considerable dispute as to whether individual early photographs actually show a dead person or not, often ...
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 ...
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 ...
Oct 23, 2018 · 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 ...
