Photos With Dead People. Poignant and Unsettling PostMortem Family Portraits from the 19th Century Open Culture Post-mortem photography is the practice of photographing the recently deceased All the people standing and more than a few of the seated people are NOT dead
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Bathing and burning the Hindu dead, Benares, India, 1903; Boston Public Library, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons So many people came up with creative ways to remember the dead — including Victorian death photos
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Locks of hair cut from the dead were arranged and worn in lockets and rings, death masks were created in wax, and the images and symbols of death appeared in paintings and sculptures. All the people standing and more than a few of the seated people are NOT dead Locks of hair cut from the dead were arranged and worn in lockets and rings, death masks were created in wax, and the images and symbols of death appeared in paintings and sculptures.
Taken from life The unsettling art of death photography BBC News. Other so-called postmortems are often assumed to be of dead people because something seems "spooky." Too-stiff posture, unnatural-looking eyes, or eerie shadows can easily start a photo's. Deceased boy holding a toy and flower, Daguerreotype, circa 1855.
Post mortem photography Morbid gallery reveals how Victorians took photos of their DEAD. In this photo you can see the dead girl is more in focus than her parents, as they moved while the photograph was being taken Sometimes the living would even pose with the dead for "one final family photo." Postmortem photography eventually died out decades later around the start of the 1900s when casual photography.