post mortem

Photographs taken after the death of a child were popular in the mid nineteenth century. Daguerreotype, 1850s, eastern USA.

Winter’s Gibbet, Elsdon, Northumberland.
Jul 20, 2007 | Categories: "this happened here", landscapes, memento mori, memory practices | Leave A Comment »

Photographs taken after the death of a child were popular in the mid nineteenth century. Daguerreotype, 1850s, eastern USA.
Oct 22, 2005 | Categories: (re)framing, figure and ground, memento mori, photography, physiognomy, ruins and remains, the spectral, the uncanny | Leave A Comment »
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