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Jun 4, 2016 · 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 sharpness of...
Dec 29, 2017 · Notable deaths 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...
Aug 6, 2018 · There are beautiful, heartbreaking images of everyone from children who died at birth to great-grandparents who broke 100.
Nineteenth-century photograph of a deceased child with flowers. Some images, especially tintypes and ambrotypes have a rosy tint added to the cheeks of the corpse. Later photographs show the subject in a coffin, sometimes with a large group of funeral attendees. This was especially popular in Europe and less common in the United States. [15] .
Jan 11, 2017 · Powerful Photos of the Body After Death. By Ellyn Kail on January 11, 2017. When photographer Patrik Budenz first requested permission to document the work at Berlin’s Institute of Legal Medicine and Forensic Sciences in 2007, the answer was no.
Oct 25, 2016 · Ahead, 19 striking photos show what death really looks like, with captions from the photographer.
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.
