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12-28-2022, 04:49 AM
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Re: Victorian Post Mortem Photos
Disease, abuse, dehydration, sepsis, accidents, many children died of minor issues that today wouldn't even put them in the hospital. Lack of antibiotics, vaccines, poor hygiene, murder bottles (bottle for children with long tubing that could not be sanitized.) Over 50% of children born in that era, died before their 5th birthday. |
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12-28-2022, 05:27 AM
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Re: Victorian Post Mortem Photos
It never stopped. There are photographers today, that specialize in post mortem photography. "Now I Lay Me Down to Sleep" is a group of photographers that go to hospitals and photograph families with their stillborn children, or babies that died shortly after birth. In some cases they were there to record the birth, as well as the baby's death. Not all parents want photos or video, but it's rare for parents to decline. They are the one and only photo compilation of that baby, unless family/friends take photos too. The hospital takes a birth photo for medical records, and parents who didn't want photos or videos after birth, change their mind about photos awhile later. So we have that birth photo in medical records, and parents are so very grateful.
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12-28-2022, 06:34 AM
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Re: Victorian Post Mortem Photos
This isn't memento mori it's an Victorian era photo, recently photoshopped for an album cover. It is a myth that the Victorians posed the dead to appear alive, nor did they paint eyelids. The vast majority of photos from the Victorian era, are mislabeled as post mortem, but they are NOT post mortem.  |
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12-28-2022, 06:56 AM
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Re: Victorian Post Mortem Photos
There was no stopping post mortem photography. The only reason VPMP began was due to the invention of photography. Photography was new, and initially there weren't many photographers, so with the mortality rate so high, people were dying before they had the chance to have photos taken. Finally there's a way for people to have images of loved ones that were affordable, so if a person passed away before such photos could be taken, a post mortem photo was better than no photo. The Victorians were not morbid, death obsessed people. If pmp were the only way one could preserve an image of a loved one, I believe the majority of us would have done it as well. |
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12-28-2022, 07:02 AM
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Re: Victorian Post Mortem Photos
Not really if you think about it. Before photography the only way to preserve an image of a loved one was with a painting, and only the very rich could afford paintings. Photography comes along, and offers people an affordable way to preserve an image of a loved one, when before they had nothing. I believe most people today would have felt the same way, a pmp was better than no photo.
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01-01-2023, 04:23 AM
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Re: Victorian Post Mortem Photos
Disease, accidents, lack of antibiotics and vaccines, poor knowledge of medical issues, disease, poor hygiene. Children died back then from issues that wouldn't require hospitalization today. Greater than 50% of children born in that era, died before the age of five years.
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01-01-2023, 04:39 AM
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Re: Victorian Post Mortem Photos
This isn't a post mortem photo. You can not sit a corpse up like that, and they never did set a corpse up like that. It is a photo that was obviously altered, but not so the dead appeared alive. Light colored eyes looked rather creepy in old photos, so the photographer would darken the pupils a bit so they didn't look so odd. This could also have been photoshopped recently for Halloween decor. You find that more often than you'd think.
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