Wednesday, October 18, 2006

Victorian Death Photography

Victorian Death Photography
I have always found postmortem photography, especially of children, extremely poignant.  They induce in me a sweet melancholy.
10/18/2006 01:01:00 PM 5 Comments

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Anonymous said...

My creepy meter is pegged.

10/18/06, 3:29 PM
Rodger the Real King of France said...

I just found out that this practice continues in our hospitals, at least in NICU and O.B.

10/18/06, 4:15 PM
Anonymous said...

Here's my "simple" opinion... That's just CREEPY, I don' care who ya are! Gross, Rodgie. Juice

10/18/06, 11:18 PM
John Burgess said...

Have you seen "hair pictures?" Maybe they're only endemic to New England, but in the Victorian era, people would collect locks of hair of the departed to create patterned art, all nicely framed and hung on the wall.

10/19/06, 12:03 AM
Anonymous said...

Even more creepy... You may have heard of this before, but libraries have books bound in human skin.. Apparently it wasn't so odd to pass on a bit of yourself to your relatives... (me? I'm gonna be cremated.. f*** them all, I don't want
anything usable left behind)

http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2006/01/11/ap/strange/mainD8F26STG0.shtml

remember kids, that's a cbs news link. Wash your hands after you click it.

(If the link doesn't work, just google "bound "human skin") ....shudder.. chill...

10/19/06, 10:12 AM

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