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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. Burns Archive - Wikipedia

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    The Burns Archive is the world’s largest private collection of early medical photography and historic photographs, housing over one million photographs.While it primarily contains images related to medical practises, it is also famous for photographs depicting 'the darker side of life'. [1]

  4. Monochrome photography - Wikipedia

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    Black-and-white photography is considered by some to add a more emotional touch to the subject, compared with the original colored photography. [6] Monochrome images may be produced in a number of ways. Finding and capturing a scene having only variants of a certain hue, while difficult and uncommon in practice, will result in an image that ...

  5. 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.

  6. Forensic photography - Wikipedia

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    Common types of photography such as creative and artistic photography give a different purpose than forensic photography. Crime scene photography allows one to capture essential aspects of the crime scene, including its scope, the focal points of the scene, and any physical or material evidence found at or from a result of it. [5]

  7. Livor mortis - Wikipedia

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    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 ...

  8. Spirit photography - Wikipedia

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    Spirit photography (also called ghost photography) is a type of photography whose primary goal is to capture images of ghosts and other spiritual entities, especially in ghost hunting. It dates back to the late 19th century.

  9. Category:Black-and-white photographs - Wikipedia

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    Specific black-and-white photographs. It should not contain the images (files) themselves, nor should it contain free- or fair-use images which do not have associated articles. See also Category:Color photographs