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Dec 28, 2015 · Pictures of dead celebrities can be hard to look at, but remember the good reasons behind open caskets. Many of these celebrities probably wanted the many fans who loved them to be able to say farewell.
- Mel Judson
- 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...
Critics: producer, director. biography, photo, best movies and TV shows, news, birthday and age. «In Wahrheit: Blind vor Liebe» (2023), «The Things We Hide» (2022), «Where Is My Sister?» (2022), «Honecker und der Pastor» (2022), «In Wahrheit: Unter Wasser» (2022)...
- Male
- Producer, Director
The adaptation for cinema of the eponymous novel by Miriam Maertens about her struggle for a life lived in dignity and self-determination. Miriam Maertens comes from a well-known family of actors in Hamburg.
Paul Grunert was born in 1957 in Chichester, West Sussex, England, UK. He is an actor, known for Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps (2010), Death Defying Acts (2007) and MI-5 (2002).
- January 1, 1
- Actor
- Chichester, West Sussex, England, UK
- Paul Grunert
Olaf Grunert photos, including production stills, premiere photos and other event photos, publicity photos, behind-the-scenes, and more.
TV Series, arte, ZDF [de] commissioning editor. ZDF/arte. Movies: In Wahrheit - Blind vor Liebe, Was wir verbergen - Ein Fall für Katharina Tempel, In Wahrheit - Unter Wasser, Honecker und der Pastor, Alles auf Rot, The Forger.
