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Jun 4, 2016 · In images that are both unsettling and strangely poignant, families pose with the dead, infants appear asleep, and consumptive young ladies elegantly recline, the disease not only taking their...
Oct 27, 2017 · Known as memento mori (which means “remember you must die”), the trend became increasingly popular for a period of time, and even Queen Victoria slept underneath a photo of her dead husband.
Oct 31, 2023 · Haunting Victorian death portraits that show the way families used post-mortem photography in the 1800s as a way to remember the deceased.
Nov 21, 2023 · These haunting death photos of loved ones before they died tell a powerful story of grief, love, and loss. They show why you shouldn’t take people for granted.
Oct 23, 2018 · In an era when photos were expensive and many people didn’t have any pictures of themselves when they were alive, post-mortem photography was a way for families to remember their deceased...
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 ...
Nov 9, 2017 · Calvert describes how the emotions triggered by such images – ‘ones tied to grief, grieving and memory’ represent the ‘intangible injury that a constitutional right of familial privacy over images of death guards against’, 171 demonstrating the need for and importance of such a right.
