Victorian Post Mortem Photography

Victorian Post Mortem Photography

After the invention of daguerrotype, the memorializing habits of people have changed: they've chosen the cheap, higher quality photographs instead of expensive and The Morbidly Fascinating Page This Month’s Subject: Post Mortem Photography in the Victorian Era. IN THE ARCHIVES: Flesh-Eating Bacteria Mob HitsI have an interest in Victorian post mortem photography. These are some of the photos I've collected from onilne sources. These pictures are of children in Of all the shocking images available online, we were surprised to discover one of the strangest and most unsettling phenomena dates back to Victorian times.Memento Mori translation.. Literally "Remember to die" At possibly no other time in history have the living been so preoccupied with the dead as in the Victorian era.Strange Past: Post Mortem Photography by Steve Huff NOTE: WOW, this post has been viewed over 250,000 times in just 36 hours which is insane and more thanAs I mentioned in the original post on Hidden mothers in Victorian portraits, in 19th century photographs of children you can sometimes spot a mother hiding behind a During the Victorian Era families chose to memorialize their loved ones with a photograph since it was cheaper than a painting. Often the loved ones were dead.The earliest post-mortem photographs are usually close-ups of the face or shots of the full body and rarely include the coffin. The subject is usually What is Victorian Post Mortem Photography? In the Victorian era (1837-1901), in most of Europe and America, photographing the dead was common practice; an expensive

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