Haunting portrait photography

One fifth of the people are always against everything all the time. - Robert F. Kennedy

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.

Yesterday, the 5th Annual Doomsday Clock Symposium was conducted by the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists at the American Association for the Advancement of Science. During the Symposium, one of the lecturers shared Harold Edgerton's photographs of the world's first atomic explosion. Edgerton, an MIT professor, received a top secret contract from the US government to film the first bomb test in the New Mexico desert in 1945, as well as several subsequent tests. He invented the rapatronic…

Chicago native Kyle Thompson began to take photos at age nineteen. He would drive a few hours out of town to various abandoned houses and empty wooded area