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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...
- 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...
Nov 29, 2021 · The brutality of Jack the Ripper’s crimes combined with the questions which still linger make the Ripper’s unsolved murders some of the most infamous in history. Operating in London’s slimy East End in 1888, Jack the Ripper killed at least 5 women before mutilating their bodies.
Jun 27, 2015 · Taking post-mortem photos, or memento mori, of the dead was common in Victorian times. Often they were of babies or young children who fell victim to rampant diseases, but few of those post-mortem ...
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Oct 20, 2014 · The eerie Victorian ritual of post-mortem photography ushered in a new era of family portraits – for the living and the dead. Grieving families soon took up the new technology to create everlasting mementos of the dearly departed.
Murder in Black and White: Victorian Crime Scenes and the Ripper Photographs. Megha Anwer. The paucity of criticism on the photographic evidence of Jack the ripper’s murders is striking and surprising, particularly given that these images amount to one of the first visual docu-mentations of what are now called sex crimes.
