tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2320880361203053560.post5469581451620134909..comments2024-03-24T21:46:01.457-05:00Comments on Forgotten Old Photos: Photo Number 1140Far Side of Fiftyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07995757632158408442noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2320880361203053560.post-62319833427550222042013-02-20T14:32:28.136-06:002013-02-20T14:32:28.136-06:00There is a good group on Flickr that focuses on po...There is a good group on Flickr that focuses on post-mortem photography. Some of the more obvious ones are the children laid out on a settee with lots of flowers or in a casket or one sibling holding up the other. One in particular I will always remember was the family had used artificial eyes for the photo. They were wooden and crudely painted. Definitely not something I want to be thinking about in the dark!gi_janearnghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18356685407920481255noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2320880361203053560.post-78815347530692280782013-02-19T09:18:07.345-06:002013-02-19T09:18:07.345-06:00My collection is more "Memorial" than ac...My collection is more "Memorial" than actual post-mortem..I do have one post- mortem photo ..but I have not decided if I will post it or not.:(Far Side of Fiftyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07995757632158408442noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2320880361203053560.post-61762352188448859092013-02-18T17:56:51.643-06:002013-02-18T17:56:51.643-06:00Can't exactly say I'll be looking forward ...Can't exactly say I'll be <i>looking forward</i> to the photographs this week, but I'm interested in your take on memorial photography.<br /><br />I've heard quite a bit about the "post-mortem" photographs, but it seems everyone has their own take on whether a certain picture was of that type. When I posted the scans of late 1800s photographs loaned to me by a distant relative, I got a lot of comments, "Oh, that's one of <i>those</i> photographs. But I wasn't necessarily sure, myself.<br /><br />I wonder if a lot of those don't-blink-or-you'll-ruin-the-sitting portraits made more people look "post mortem" than was originally intended. :)Jacqi Stevenshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03471698670217119444noreply@blogger.com