The Strangest Tradition of the Victorian Era: Post-Mortem Photography
Wednesday, July 17, 2013 - 11:31
in Paleontology & Archaeology
After the invention of daguerrotype, the memorializing habits of people have changed: they've chosen the cheap, higher quality photographs instead of expensive and not so lifelike paintings. Painting dead people was common for centuries, so it's no surprise that, in the Victori …