Fading Away (1858) Henry Peach Robinson (1830–1901) - George Eastman House. The Good Death. Memento Mori

Photos of the Dead: Victorian Postmortem Photography and the Case of the Standing Corpse

Photography has been a way for people to remember people, places, and events. We commemorate and document life through photographs, and have been doing so since the 19th century. But photography has also been used to document death. In this episode we are discussing Victorian postmortem photography. This has received Read more…