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07-20-2012, 08:31 PM
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| So Fucking Banned Poster Rank:2534 Female Join Date: Sep 2011 Posts: 171 171Posts 1,482Thanked 2Quoted 0Mentioned 0Contrib. |
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Postmortem Photography (children)
Post-Mortem photography was a common custom during the beginning of the 19th century. It eventually replaced the older and more costly use of posthumous paintings. With the inevntion and popularization of the photograph came the ability for the middle class to memorialize their loved ones. A family that could not afford a lavish funeral or beautiful headstone could finally, at the very least, immortalize their memories via a photograph. At a time when photographs were still new, this practice was not perceived as morbid. Posthumous photos were a testament to the lives of those gone before. In Victorian society birth and death rates were almost equal. Young children in particular faced a broad number of risks from childhood diseases to contaminated bottles and patent medicines. Because of this most post-mortem photographs are of small children. Most families did not take regular pictures of their children because of the expense involved; a post-mortem photograph was often the only picture of a child the family had. Children were sometimes posed sitting up, with their eyes open and favorite toy in hand, or in the arms of their mother.
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07-20-2012, 08:46 PM
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 wolfie Poster Rank:225 male Join Date: Jan 2010 Posts: 6,508 6,508Posts 3,233Thanked 109Quoted 2Mentioned 0Contrib. |
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Re: Postmortem Photography (children)
They got alot of practice back then on kids. They died like flies.
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07-20-2012, 10:52 PM
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| My Rank: PRIVATE Poster Rank:8307 Join Date: Mar 2012 Posts: 21 21Posts 19Thanked 1Quoted 0Mentioned 0Contrib. |
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Re: Postmortem Photography (children)
Wasn't it also because back then you had to stay extremely still because the photographs took so long to take and this was the best time to get a photo of their kid?
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