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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...
Apr 3, 2024 · A camera with undeveloped film was found next to MCandless’ remains after his death. On the roll of film was a final photo that he had taken of himself with a note in his hand.
Sep 7, 2020 · He took portrait shots of them regularly, and a selection of these are on offer in Snowdon: A Life in Art and Objects at Christie’s in London between September 3 and 24. The sale features photographs and other items that belonged to Armstrong-Jones before his death in 2017, aged 86.
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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...
Juliet Snowden is an American screenwriter, film director, and producer, best known for writing Knowing and Ouija. She is also known for co-writing screenplays with her husband Stiles White.
Juliet Snowden is a screenwriter, producer, and documentary director. Born and raised in Louisiana, Juliet earned a degree in English and Creative Writing from Louisiana State University and also attended University of Strathclyde in Glasgow, Scotland.
Stephen Susco, Stiles White, Juliet Snowden, Larry Cohen, and Mick Garris attend the 2009 American Film Market - Day 6, Writing for the Genre World at the Le Merigot Hotel on November 9, 2009 in... Get premium, high resolution news photos at Getty Images
