Thursday, October 30, 2008

Lots of People Who Died

In the spirit of Halloween here's a flikr set that features the defunct art form of post mortem photography. that's where corpses were dressed up, posed, and photographed.

http://www.flickr.com/photos/mement0_m0ri/sets/72157594539535491/






extra creepy one:

http://www.flickr.com/photos/mement0_m0ri/409140959/in/set-72157594539535491/

PBS has a documentary on the subject:

http://www.pbs.org/pov/pov2004/afamilyundertaking/special_gone.html

2 comments:

Chogrin said...

Intense

pw! said...

so good. always talked with friends about shooting "new" recreations for album art. terrific portraits

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