Popular during the Victorian era, post-mortem photographs provided family members with an opportunity to capture a lasting likeness of their deceased loved ones. In one case, a young child passed ...
This video explores the disturbing world of post-mortem photography in the Wild West, where families posed beside deceased loved ones for final portraits. Many images were taken only hours after death ...
Mary and her mother run a post-mortem photography business in 1840's Australia. They arrive to a small farmhouse to find devastated parents grieving over the death of their daughter but as they get to ...