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 photographs. They offer an intriguing glimpse in to life over a century ago, when people immortalized their children with professional photographs of their corpses. In fact, most of the post-mortem photography I have found is of either babies and small children, or the very elderly. It makes me glad for vaccines. I have compiled a second gallery of post-mortem photographs from the UK, the US, Africa, Europe and Latin America, which you can view after the jump. One interesting thing I found this time around was that not only did post-mortem photography span the globe, it also went beyond human corpses – many people preserved the memory of their beloved dogs with group photos with their lifeless bodies. I also threw in a couple of disturbing autopsy photos as well, which I am going to do a follow-up post on when I find enough of them.
Images via paulfrecker.com/
kim
August 7, 2012 at 5:55 am
Hi wondering if you could get in contact with me as I would like to ask about using some of your pics.
Meghan
August 8, 2012 at 3:48 pm
Hi Kim, these are not our photos, they were sourced from different sites around the internet. I know I found quite a few here: http://www.paulfrecker.com/ but otherwise I just pulled them from random places.