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Victorian Post Mortem Photographs
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Not to everyone's taste...these photos are haunting and mesmerising...and it's so difficult to see where the living end,and the dead begin.
I've read that though this was a common way to remember the dead,there are fake photos,..I'd assume some of these are. Still,a very curious practice.
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For more on marking an answer as the "Best Answer", please visit our FAQ.Indeed, pasta. Photography was very expensive so people didn't have many or any photos of their loved ones so this was a last chance to have one.
Death wasn't something tidied up by other people in a neat and sanitary way as it is today. Very often the body would remain in the family home until the day of the funeral after being laid out by family members
Death wasn't something tidied up by other people in a neat and sanitary way as it is today. Very often the body would remain in the family home until the day of the funeral after being laid out by family members
I remember my G/Mother died 1955 and my G/Father in 1960 and the Coffins being in the Front Room until the day of the Funeral. My Mother died in 1984 when I was 33, all very different, straight to the Funeral Directors from the Hospital.
As an ex Serviceman I'm aware I am responsible for more than one death and I no more wish to be pictured with them than I do with any of my long gone Family. Times change. As a Victorian I would most likely have been pictured with one foot on the chest of my enemy and holding up the firearm that killed them, with a caption that said they were the last of their kind etc.
I hope the photos have not offended or upset you in any way bednobs. If so,please accept my apologies.
I think the reasoning behind the (realistic) posing was to supply a memory of the person as they were in life. This may have been the only opportunity to capture a family together,as photography was not yet affordable or common.
I think the reasoning behind the (realistic) posing was to supply a memory of the person as they were in life. This may have been the only opportunity to capture a family together,as photography was not yet affordable or common.
Whilst I realise that Wiki is as likely to be wrong as any site, this article includes references to the fact that stands etc were not used post mortem but rather during long sittings to keep the sitter still.
There are also links within to more learned studies.
http:// en.wiki pedia.o rg/wiki /Post-m ortem_p hotogra phy
There are also links within to more learned studies.
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