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Post-mortem photograph of Emperor Frederick III of Germany, 1888. Post-mortem photograph of Brazil's deposed emperor Pedro II, taken by Nadar, 1891.. The invention of the daguerreotype in 1839 made portraiture commonplace, as many of those who were unable to afford the commission of a painted portrait could afford to sit for a photography session.
Cadaveric spasm, also known as postmortem spasm, instantaneous rigor mortis, cataleptic rigidity, or instantaneous rigidity, is a rare form of muscular stiffening that occurs at the moment of death and persists into the period of rigor mortis. [1]
Mourning portrait of K. Horvath-Stansith, née Kiss, artist unknown, 1680s A Child of the Honigh Family on its Deathbed, by an unknown painter, 1675-1700. A mourning portrait or deathbed portrait is a portrait of a person who has recently died, usually shown on their deathbed, or lying in repose, displayed for mourners.
Twelve people are dead after their bodies were found inside a restaurant at a popular ski resort in the Caucasus Mountains of Georgia, authorities said. The Mtskheta-Mtianeti Police Department of ...
The images depict Paddock's dead body surrounded by an arsenal of weapons, which he used to rain bullets down on the Route 91 Harvest Country Music Festival on October 1, killing 58 concertgoers ...
What Remains is a 2003 photography book by Sally Mann.The book is published by Bullfinch Press and contains 132 images on the subject of death, including photographs of decomposing bodies. [2]
The bodies of the fallen mountaineers are well-preserved, exhibiting little to no decay due to the intense cold temperatures. “I am probably more familiar with death and the loss of life than ...
Livor mortis (from Latin līvor 'bluish color, bruise' and mortis 'of death'), postmortem lividity (from Latin post mortem 'after death' and lividitas 'black and blueness'), hypostasis (from Greek ὑπό (hypo) 'under, beneath' and στάσις (stasis) 'a standing') [1] [2] or suggillation, is the second stage of death and one of the signs of ...