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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.
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] .
Dec 22, 2017 · 22 minute read. By Liz Ronk. December 22, 2017 11:00 AM EST. These photographers helped shape and define nearly every area of our world, from rock music to civil rights to fine art. Here, TIME...
Oct 27, 2017 · The deathbed photos of Jenner raise a number of interesting questions: why were these photos taken when post-mortem photography was on the wane? Indeed, it is much more common to see deathbed photographs of children gone before their time than someone who had lived a long and full life like Jenner.
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 · 2017 saw an avalanche of rock'n'roll deaths and even the passing of one of its inventors, the American guitarist Chuck Berry.
Oct 26, 2017 · A macabre genealogy stretches from Mme Debeinche to the reproductions of crime-scene photos that proliferate in true-crime documentaries and dramas today.
