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  1. 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]

  2. 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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  4. 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...

  5. Aug 11, 2022 · The Art of Post-Mortem Photography. Death was ubiquitous throughout the Victorian era due to high mortality rates and the uncontrolled spread of illness. Many individuals devised inventive methods to commemorate the deceased, like Victorian post-mortem photos.

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  6. Jul 19, 2017 · By the 1860s, death photos began explicit attempts to animate the corpse. Dead bodies sit in chairs, posed in the act of playing or reading. In one striking tintype dated 1859, a young boy...

  7. Oct 11, 2021 · All of this happening at the same time as advances in photography led to the prevalence of postmortem photos, where Victorians would haul out their dead, prop them up on stands, and take a...

  8. Feb 19, 2019 · Death, Immortalized: Victorian Post-Mortem Photography. Posted on: February 19th, 2019. Image via bbc.com. The photo above is an extended family gathered in the parlor to pose for a portrait – or is it? Photographs were increasingly becoming more affordable and accessible in the late 1850’s, but the family still put on their best clothes ...

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