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Jan 31, 2022 · One of the Faust musicians worked on the design with me, Gunther Wüsthoff. Like Rudolf Sosna and Hans Joachim Irmler, he studied at the college of art in Hamburg in the early ’70s. Max Bense and Umberto Eco impressed him most at that time with their development of semiotics.” Gunther Wüsthoff: “There is a straight line from Faust to Punkt.
Faust (German:, English: "fist") are a German rock band from Hamburg.Formed in 1971 by producer and former music journalist Uwe Nettelbeck, the group was originally composed of Werner "Zappi" Diermaier (b.1949), Hans Joachim Irmler (b.1950), [5] Arnulf Meifert, Jean-Hervé Péron (b.1949), [6] Rudolf Sosna (1946 – 1996) and Gunther Wüsthoff, working with engineer Kurt Graupner. [7]
Apr 3, 2024 · A hiker took this photo of a giant black bear on his cell phone moments before it chased and mauled him to death. Darsh Patel was hiking with four friends in New Jersey in 2014 and used his cell ...
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- The Creation of Post-Mortem Photos
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- 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...
Oct 31, 2023 · These are the haunting Victorian death portraits that show the way middle-class families used post-mortem photography in the 1800s as a way to remember lost loved ones. In this photo, the youngest ...
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 ...
Nov 17, 2018 · 31 Vintage Crime Scenes Brought To Life In Stunningly Gruesome Color. These colorized versions of vintage black-and-white crime scene photos reveal a unique perspective on the murders, mobsters, and mayhem of decades past. Mafia kingpin Joe Masseria holds the ace of spades, "the death card," in his hand following his murder on the orders of ...
