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Jun 21, 2024 · Grimshaw Pauline Passed away very suddenly at home on 7th June 2024, aged 71 years. Devoted and loving partner of Bob and well loved friend of many. Funeral service to take place on Wednesday...
Feb 11, 2024 · Linda Robson has revealed the heartbreaking reason her Birds of a Feather co-star Pauline Quirke left the show. Loose Women star Linda, 65, explained in a new interview that 64-year-old Pauline...
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...
- 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...
Oct 27, 2017 · Here’s a 2-minute video by the HISTORY channel about this creepy fad. Known as memento mori (which means “remember you must die”), the trend became increasingly popular for a period of time, and...
Aug 17, 2014 · This photo series is about death and contains images of people before and after they’ve died. As a child growing up in Munich toward the end of World War II, Walter Schels was greatly...
When Pauline Hanson's One Nation party went into damage control following a strip club scandal involving former party member Steve Dickson in 2019, the party leader spoke to A Current Affair in a raw and confronting interview with Grimshaw from her home in Brisbane.
