Memento mori photos

Back when photography was a starting art form, it was expensive and laborious that it was (often) only in death when a person gets photographed.

Julia Stilley Lynn standing, and sister Hannah Stilley Willard. Mannsville, Oklahoma. Daughters of Alfred & Nancy Ann Stilley.

Victorian postmortem photos did exist, no one denies that, however, they were never taken in a standing pose using a stand. It was imposs...

*Shudder*

The dice and the guns weren't the only things loaded in the Old West -- so were many of the men and women.

Slightly more macabre follow up post to Hidden mothers in Victorian photography. Post-mortem photography is the practice of photographing the recently deceased. It is also known as memorial portrai…

"Long exposures when taking photographs meant that the dead were often seen more sharply than the slightly-blurred living, because of their lack of movement" - https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-36389581 Saved from: https://imgur.com/gallery/se5bp

Yesterday, someone at work came across a wonderful album of photos from the 1860s. They took one look and promptly threw it into a bin. Minu...

Death is an imminent phenomenon that occurs no matter how much we put it out of our minds. It is gloomy, shocking, sad, but mostly hopeful. Death is the one