Re: Corpse Photography

[karl shah-jenner <shahjen@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Klaus wrote:

My personal theory is that these photographs follow in the tradition of 
creating death masks to preserve memories or create painted portraits.

And everyone is different, I guess.  I myself am quite content to not have 
seen my dad (or have a photograph of him) after he died. I’d rather have a 
living picture of him in my heart.



you might have a point there.  In earlier times photography was a pretty 
expensive thing and not everyone had portraits made in a timely fashion- 
it'd be no stretch to think relatives would seize the last possible 
opportunity when the aarrived to ad a carte-de-visite of Uncle Dave to the 
family collection.