Re: Corpse Photography

[Jan Faul <jan@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

‘Back in the day’ when this was done, corpses were treated differently. After the Civil Wr, free-lancers were paid to run around  the battlefields and collect the dead to be shot (so to speak) and reinterred - all for a dollar. 

On May 1, 2014, at 10:11 AM, Randy Little wrote:

Wasnt this standard practice in the 1850-1900s(later) in the US and Europe? 

On May 1, 2014 10:08 AM, "John Palcewski" <palcewski@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Photographer in India earns living taking pictures of the dead minutes before they’re cremated

"Shankar Jha earns about $500 a month capturing photos of recently deceased for grieving families in Varanasi, in northern India. ‘Initially I felt awkward doing this job but now I've got used to it it doesn't feel bad anymore.’ "

Only in the New York Daily News!

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