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If you’ve been following CVLT Nation for a while, then you know we are unabashed taphophiles. There’s nothing we like more than music, art...
Since my first post on Victorian post-mortem photography, I have had the chance to explore more about the subject and find new troves of...
Imagine walking into someone’s living room, and seeing a large and beautifully staged portrait of them posing with their brother, sister, mother or father....
There was a time when photography was considered a medium for pleasing subjects. It was between the Victorian penchant for headless, spirit and post-mortem...
Over the past century, the film industry has undergone an evolution of massive proportions. Horror films today are masters of realism, the gore and...
So you are into death, and all of its forms and trappings...what do you do for fun? There are a ton of ways to...
In the 19th century, death was a big event. From post-mortem photography to memento mori jewelry to the year spent mourning the dead, they...
via Beautiful Decay At the end of life: a camera lens, desperately recording and archiving the fears of the dying. For the series Life...
When commercial photography became available to the public in the 1800s, wealthy families started the now age-old and irritatingly ubiquitous practice of photographing their...
CVLT Nation is a place where people fascinated with the imagery of death and destruction can come to listen to music, see art and...
From mere charcoal and pencil, Laurie Lipton give life to universes. It’s as if each time she touches her instruments to paper, the Big...
Sometimes I like to imagine what researchers will discover of our culture 1000 years from now…maybe nothing, because our hard drives will have wiped...