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2. en.wikipedia.org › wiki › Post-mortem_photographyPost-mortem photography - Wikipedia

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   Post-mortem photography flourished in photography's early decades, among those who preferred to capture an image of the deceased. [7] This helped many photographic businesses in the nineteenth century. [8]

3. allthatsinteresting.com › victorian-death-photos27 Victorian Death Photos - All That's Interesting

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   Dec 16, 2020 · Published December 16, 2020. Updated July 26, 2021. To this day, Victorian death pictures remain chilling artifacts of a bygone era that's shocking to modern sensibilities. 27 Victorian Death Photos — And The Disturbing History Behind Them. View Gallery.

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   When did the 1800s start and end?

   • The 1800s (pronounced "eighteen-hundreds") was a decade of the Gregorian calendar that began on 1 January 1800, and ended on 31 December 1809. The term "eighteen-hundreds" could also mean the entire century from 1 January 1800 to 31 December 1899 (the years beginning with "18"), and is almost synonymous with the 19th century (1801–1900).

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   Was post-mortem photography a custom in the 1800s?

   • Post-mortem photography seems an odd custom to us today, but as historian Melissa DeVelvis explains, it was an important custom in the 1800's.

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   What was life like in the 1800s?

   • Image via Burns Archive via HIstory.com Americans in the 1800s were far more intimately acquainted with death than we are today. Most of this was out of necessity–before embalming procedures became popularized, it was the duty of the family to quickly prepare the body for a viewing and burial.

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5. www.bbc.com › news › uk-england-36389581Taken from life: The unsettling art of death photography - BBC

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   Jun 4, 2016 · Photographs of loved ones taken after they died may seem morbid to modern sensibilities. But in Victorian England, they became a way of commemorating the dead and blunting the sharpness of...

6. www.theatlantic.com › 07 › pictures-of-deathPictures of Death: Postmortem Photography - The Atlantic

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   Jul 19, 2017 · By pressing subjects to execute specific poses and gestures, death photos helped the living externalize personal loss. The faces of many mourners evidence the struggle.

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8. clarabartonmuseum.org › post-mortem-photographyDeath, Immortalized: Victorian Post-Mortem Photography

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   Feb 19, 2019 · In the 1800s, the child mortality rate was so high that parents had to believe that their child had moved on to a better place in heaven. Their restful repose in post-mortem photography reflects this belief in a peaceful afterlife.

9. clements.umich.edu › exhibit › death-in-earlyPost-Mortem Photography: An Overview - UM Clements Library

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   Post-mortem photographs are images taken of people after death. Memorial and post-mortem photography was common from the birth of the daguerreotype in 1839 to the 1930s. Deaths were frequent in the 19th and early 20th centuries and many people – especially children – had no photograph taken of them while living.