Hidden mothers victorian photography

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Lauren Collins writes about the recent conversation emerging in the French press about the representation of mothers in family photographs, and how the “hidden mother” has been a phenomenon through history, with mothers from the Victorian era, acting as props for their children, to now.

In these bizarre photos, the mothers have been basically erased.

Wearing widow's weeds and holding photograph of their loved ones, photos show Victorians in mourning as part of a trend that saw them pictured in the throes of their grief.

Great daguerreotype of little girl with hidden mother

Victorian ghost mother.

Whenever a relative died when I was a child, we would gather around their body, sometimes laid out on a table, a coffin or slowly cooling under the bed sheets, and say five decades of the rosary for the repose of their soul. I attended at least half a dozen funerals before I was twelve: my father’s side of the family were descended from fertile Irish-Scottish Catholics. The dead always looked more peaceful before they were wheeled off to a funeral home, where make-up was applied, cheeks…