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Post-mortem photograph of the Norwegian theologian Bernhard Pauss with flowers, photographed by Gustav Borgen, Christiania, November 1907. 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 ...
In the 1800s, taking a photo of a dead body wasn’t creepy—it was comforting. In an era when photos were expensive and many people didn’t have any pictures of themselves when they were...
Jul 19, 2017 · An Object Lesson. By Nancy West. The Thanatos Archive / Jack Mord. July 19, 2017. Photography owes much of its early flourishing to death. Not in images depicting the aftermath of violent crimes...
Oct 25, 2016 · Ahead, 19 striking photos show what death really looks like, with captions from the photographer. Related: There's More Than One Way To Die With Dignity. Welcome to Death Week. This week,...
Silverthorne’s images of a “Woman Who Died in Her Sleep,” gesturing in death as tenderly and convincingly as in life, to signal Morpheus and Thanatos, and of a baby’s intractable foot, and ...
Oct 26, 2017 · At first glance, the faded 1903 photograph of Madame Debeinche’s bedroom, bound in the yellowed pages of an early 20th-century album, shows what looks to be an unremarkable middle-class Parisian...
John Carl Warnecke. John Carl Warnecke and First Lady Jacqueline Kennedy discuss plans for Lafayette Square in September 1962. John Carl Warnecke (February 24, 1919 – April 17, 2010) [1][2][3] was an architect based in who designed numerous monuments and structures in the Modernist, [4][5][6][7][8] Bauhaus, [9] and other similar styles.
