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  2. Post-mortem photography - Wikipedia

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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.

  3. Mourning portraits - Wikipedia

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    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.

  4. Death and the Child - Wikipedia

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    Death and the Child is a composition created by Edvard Munch in 1889. [1] [2] Since 1918 it is located in the Kunsthalle Bremen. It depicts a little girl at her mother’s deathbed who is looking at the viewer in a fearful manner. A second, thus far unknown painting of the artist was discovered underneath the canvas in 2005.

  5. Radium Girls - Wikipedia

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    In 1923, the first dial painter died, and before her death, her jaw fell away from her skull. [4] By 1924, 50 women who had worked at the plant were ill, and a dozen had died. [15] At the urging of the companies, medical professionals attributed worker deaths to other causes.

  6. Artist honours 118 women killed by men by painting their ...

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    Artist Henny Beaumont is working with the Centre for Women’s Justice and the Femicide Census to memorialise the women. Skip to main content. Sign in. Mail. 24/7 Help. For premium support please ...

  7. L'Inconnue de la Seine - Wikipedia

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    The face of the unknown woman was used for the head of the first aid mannequin Resusci Anne. [5] [28] [29] It was created by Peter Safar and Asmund Laerdal in 1958 and was used starting in 1960 in numerous CPR courses. [30] [31] For this reason, the face has been called "the most kissed face" of all time. [32]

  8. The fight for photos of Kurt Cobain's dead body is over - AOL

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    The film was developed and 26 pictures, none of the star’s full body (though parts of it), were released in 2014. Many of the photos were duplicates of ones the Seattle Police Department had ...

  9. Corpse paint - Wikipedia

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    Corpse paint is a style of body painting, used mainly by black metal bands for concerts and band photos. The body painting is used to make the musicians appear inhuman, corpse -like, or demonic , and is perhaps "the most identifiable aspect of the black metal aesthetic."