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Jun 4, 2016 · The advent of snapshots sounded the death knell for the art - as most families would have photographs taken in life. Now, these images of men, women and children stoically containing their grief ...
Oct 18, 2021 · Death photography was such a big business, the Order of the Good Death reports that trade journals like the Philadelphia Photographer gave tips to "afford assistance to some photographer of less experience, to whom it might befall the unpleasant duty to take the picture of a corpse." An 1869 edition said to place the corpse near a window, to take advantage of the natural light.
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Mar 13, 2019 · The first is the work of Weegee (real name Arthur Fellig) who was a news photographer in New York in the 1930s and 1940s. His nickname stemmed from his innate ability to be the first at a news ...
Dec 18, 2018 · Post-mortem photography became a way for families to cope with the deaths of infants and children, to provide themselves with some tangible memory of the deceased's existence. Even more so, it allowed the friends and family of the deceased to remember their loved ones as they appeared in the image instead of picturing the effects of ...
- Post-Mortem Photography Was A Popular Thing
- A Brief Definition of Post-Mortem Photography
- How Was This Now-Odd Genre Became A Thing?
- The Symbolic Importance of These Photographs For Families
- So, How Did They Manage to Maneuver The Stiff Bodies?
- About The Style
- Last But Not Least
Back in the days in which accessing a visual representation of the self was both scarce and luxurious, people often had just one opportunity of getting a decent portrait of family and loved ones after they were deceased. Basically, people only realized the importance of having a visual memento of a person after they had died, hence the popularity o...
This was the visual and social practice of creating portraits of recently deceased persons via photography; requiring photographers to develop a particular array of creative abilities that allowed them to pose stiff corpses into flattering gestures. And it is part of a broader branch of objects popularly known in “material culture studies” as memen...
Before chemistry made photography possible as a durable object, portraiture was done though drawing, engraving, painting and sculpture. None of them were cheap nor accessible to the broader public, therefore having a portrait was quite a luxury that very few were able to afford during the 18th and 19th centuries. After the magnificent invention of ...
Every one of these photographs had a deep symbolic value to at least one person, a mourning living one that wanted to keep a tangible memory of the recently deceased. All these photographs were commissioned by mourning relatives and families; and in a way, they helped people process their grief by allowing them to experience the presence of the abs...
I haven’t found evidence yet about the differentiated fees between photographing a living person and a corpse, but since painters were known for charging even double the price for painting deceased ones, it is quite easy to conclude that in photography things were handled in the same way. And this has nothing to do with taking advantage of the grie...
Some images were very traditional, with an obvious Victorianand ethereal look, and today some of them may appear creepy to some viewers or audiences. In fact, that morbidity might be the origin of so many myths surrounding this fascinating cultural practice. Same which, in my personal opinion, is the only genre that has disappeared from all the his...
If you want to see some of these photographs, I recommend you this gallery (although I’m very sure that the photograph of Lewis Carrol and some others slipped the curatorial criteria of it). Also, you can visit the Thanatos Archive for more information about this long-gone social practice, and this enlightening document on the social construction o...
Dec 17, 2021 · Post-mortem photographs gave people the opportunity to keep images of their deceased family members; Source: William Clements Library Taking pictures of the dead was a cautious process because it ...
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Apr 12, 2020 · Death photography was, at one time, a popular way of preserving a memory of a loved one who has passed. This video discusses the history of it, and suggests that it can still play a role in modern.
