postmortemportrait
9 photos tagged postmortemportrait, from 1 member of Flickr Commons.
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Post mortem portrait, ca. 1912-1930 from Fylkesarkivet i Vestland uploaded March 2017
Post mortem portrait, ca. 1912-1930 from Fylkesarkivet i Vestland uploaded March 2017
Post mortem portrait of a young boy, ca. 1912-1930 from Fylkesarkivet i Vestland uploaded March 2017
Post mortem portrait, ca. 1912-1930 from Fylkesarkivet i Vestland uploaded March 2017
Post mortem portrait, ca. 1910-1930 from Fylkesarkivet i Vestland uploaded March 2017
Post mortem portrait of a man, ca. 1910-1930 from Fylkesarkivet i Vestland uploaded March 2017
Post mortem portait of an infant, ca. 1910-1930 from Fylkesarkivet i Vestland uploaded March 2017
Funeral of Daniel Danielson Bjørkedal 1917 from Fylkesarkivet i Vestland uploaded April 2011
Post-mortem portrait from Fylkesarkivet i Vestland uploaded April 2010
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Post-mortem portrait
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Nicholé Velásquez said:
was it common in this period to photograph the dead and place it over the mantle? //nik
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Fylkesarkivet i Vestland said:
Yes, it was common to display the post-mortem portraits and distribute them to family members as well.
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dareus360 said:
It was common during that period to have these types of photos and display them. Even today, families with infants that are stillborn or die at birth often take photos of the child but do not display or share them
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covandol said:
Placing a dead person on a mantle was just for "decorating" the casket where the corpse lies making this kind of portraits more natural as if the person, in this case a baby, was sleeping.