Post-mortem Photography in the Victorian Age: When Life is a Fiction.
Victorian-era post-mortem photographs are a strange mix of charm, mystery, and the macabre, offering a way to preserve the memory of a deceased person. This is, in fact, a photographic practice that developed in the Victorian era and fell into disuse around the 1940s. Before the invention of the daguerreotype in 1839, the only way […]
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