Victorian Post-Mortem Photography

The Morbid Curiosity Podcast

Hallie Lloyd

Cryptid, Serialkiller, Science, Disease, Medicine, Scary, Skeleton, Historyofmedicine, Social Sciences, Ghost, History, Medical, Anthropology, Monsters, Archeology, Murder, Creepy, Skeptic, Paranormal, Prison

4.8 • 634 Ratings

🗓️ 20 January 2020

⏱️ 34 minutes

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Summary

During the Victorian era, the practice of capturing photographs of the dead was part of a complicated etiquette surrounding death and mourning. In this episode, we examine that etiquette and how post-mortem photography developed, its processes and how it aided in the mourning process.

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0:33.6	as little as $1 an episode. This episode contains discussions of deceased infants and children.
0:40.4	If that's not something you want to hear about, this may be a good episode to skip.
1:00.0	Humans are fascinated by gore and violence, but even more so the mysterious and unsolved.
1:04.0	Interest in these disturbing and unpleasant subjects is called morbid curiosity,
1:09.0	and it has gripped hundreds of people throughout the ages.
1:12.5	I am one of those people.
1:14.9	My name is Hallie, and this is the Morbid Curiosity podcast.
1:30.3	I'm a... The The Since its invention, photography has been a part of history. Its very purpose is to document
2:02.6	moments in time. The technology of photography has changed so much in the short span of time
2:09.1	it's existed that a person from 100 years ago would be shaken by how inundated our daily
2:15.1	lives are with pictures. Advertisements, books, magazines, billboards, posters, Facebook, Instagram, even our own
2:23.4	phone contacts are often accompanied by a small picture of our friends and family members.
2:29.6	While photography has been used for many purposes, past and present. There are some images from the past that have
2:36.1	captured modern fascination. Some of the most fascinating of these historical images are those of
2:42.5	deceased Victorians who were photographed with some ceremony. There are a variety of terms used
2:49.0	to describe the practice of photographing the dead.
2:51.6	Postmortem photography, mortuary photography, funerary photography, and morning photography are all used in the literature,
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