Post mortem

Julia Stilley Lynn standing, and sister Hannah Stilley Willard. Mannsville, Oklahoma. Daughters of Alfred & Nancy Ann Stilley.

ph. clarence hudson white | 1898

One of the myriad joys of Ebay is how easy it makes collecting vintage photographs. You can pick up entire family albums from the 20's and 30's for a pittance, and you'll almost always score a few that are suitable for use as props as-is or with a little retouching. Old black and white shots have an inherent creepiness that's hard to describe. There's an inescapable sadness in the fact that the people you're looking at are long dead, surviving only in the memories of their families and the…

Victorian Post Mortem. Alive husband laying next to deceased wife. He loved her…

This surreal scene titled "DISSECTING YOUR PAST BY HAND" is rendered in the style of vintage post-mortem photography. The aspect ratio is 9:16.

This site exists to discredit the idea of the Victorian standing post mortem photo. Post mortem photos do exist, but none of them are stand alone.

Known as post-mortem photography, some of the dearly departed were photographed in their coffin. In others, they were made to look like they were in a deep sleep.