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Title: Morbid gallery reveals how Victorians took photos of their DEAD relatives posing on couches, beds and even in coffins
Post by: mystery-ak on January 29, 2013, 11:46:33 pm: Morbid gallery reveals how Victorians took photos of their DEAD relatives posing on couches, beds and even in coffins

Post-mortem photography was popular among the middle class in the late 19th century
Some subjects had their eyes propped open to give the effect that they were still alive

By Nick Enoch

PUBLISHED: 11:51 EST, 29 January 2013 | UPDATED: 12:47 EST, 29 January 2013

Dressed in his Sunday best, a Victorian gentleman with a faraway look in his eyes sits in a chair while his photograph is taken.

But if his posture seems rather unnatural, it is for good reason. He is dead.

These remarkable pictures show the morbid way that the deceased were remembered in the late 19th century

(http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2013/01/29/article-0-173B560F000005DC-696_966x671.jpg)
The Victorians experimented with different types of photography - and even took snaps of dead relatives

Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2270169/Post-mortem-photography-Morbid-gallery-reveals-Victorians-took-photos-DEAD-relatives-posing-couches-beds-coffins.html#ixzz2JPZ6jmSj
Title: Re: Morbid gallery reveals how Victorians took photos of their DEAD relatives posing on couches, beds and even in coffins
Post by: DCPatriot on January 29, 2013, 11:53:11 pm: Cool!
Title: Re: Morbid gallery reveals how Victorians took photos of their DEAD relatives posing on couches, beds and even in coffins
Post by: Cincinnatus on January 29, 2013, 11:56:45 pm: I am not sure what is so noteworthy about this. We do the same thing.

http://images.search.yahoo.com/search/images;_ylt=A2KJkPmDYQhRq3IAcm2LuLkF?p=keith+richards&ei=utf-8&fr=sfp-img&fr2=&y=Search
Title: Re: Morbid gallery reveals how Victorians took photos of their DEAD relatives posing on couches, beds and even in coffins
Post by: mystery-ak on January 29, 2013, 11:59:03 pm: Quote from: Cincinnatus on January 29, 2013, 11:56:45 pm
I am not sure what is so noteworthy about this. We do the same thing.

http://images.search.yahoo.com/search/images;_ylt=A2KJkPmDYQhRq3IAcm2LuLkF?p=keith+richards&ei=utf-8&fr=sfp-img&fr2=&y=Search

LMAO :silly:
Title: Re: Morbid gallery reveals how Victorians took photos of their DEAD relatives posing on couches, beds and even in coffins
Post by: Rapunzel on January 30, 2013, 12:02:36 am: ~LOL~
Title: Re: Morbid gallery reveals how Victorians took photos of their DEAD relatives posing on couches, beds and even in coffins
Post by: EC on January 30, 2013, 12:12:22 am: Why is this morbid?
Title: Re: Morbid gallery reveals how Victorians took photos of their DEAD relatives posing on couches, beds and even in coffins
Post by: mystery-ak on January 30, 2013, 12:19:46 am: Quote from: EC on January 30, 2013, 12:12:22 am
Why is this morbid?

My guess posing with the dead....an unusual custom in my opinion..but fascinating.
Title: Re: Morbid gallery reveals how Victorians took photos of their DEAD relatives posing on couches, beds and even in coffins
Post by: EC on January 30, 2013, 01:06:41 am: It was completely normal. No different from an open coffin at a funeral.

At the time you had to stay perfectly still for several minutes to get a picture - something that corpses are good at.

The single picture we have of my great grandfather was taken the day after he died. Great Gram is in the picture too, but slightly blurry because she moved.