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  2. Albert Southworth - Wikipedia

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    Southworth was a student of Samuel F.B. Morse, who, in addition to his other more famous pursuits, was an avid daguerreotypist.The partnership's studio, located on the top floor of a Boston building, had enormous skylights to allow in copious amounts of light necessary for relatively "short" exposures of portraits of their subjects.

  3. Southworth & Hawes - Wikipedia

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    Southworth & Hawes was an early photographic firm in Boston, 1843–1863. Its partners, Albert Sands Southworth (1811–1894) and Josiah Johnson Hawes (1808–1901), have been hailed as the first great American masters of photography, whose work elevated photographic portraits to the level of fine art.

  4. Bodies (comics) - Wikipedia

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    Bodies is a detective fiction comic book series that follows London detectives across four time periods as they investigate the death of what appears to be the same man. It was created and written by Si Spencer , and a different artist rendered each era.

  5. 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.

  6. List of prematurely reported obituaries - Wikipedia

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    Pope John Paul II was the subject of three premature obituaries.. A prematurely reported obituary is an obituary of someone who was still alive at the time of publication. . Examples include that of inventor and philanthropist Alfred Nobel, whose premature obituary condemning him as a "merchant of death" for creating military explosives may have prompted him to create the Nobel Prize; [1 ...

  7. Josiah Johnson Hawes - Wikipedia

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    Josiah J. Hawes, c. 1850-1855 Advertisement for J.J. Hawes, Boston, 1868. Josiah Johnson Hawes (1808–1901) was a photographer in Boston, Massachusetts.He and Albert Southworth established the photography studio of Southworth & Hawes, which produced numerous portraits of exceptional quality in the 1840s–1860s.

  8. Faces of Death - Wikipedia

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    Also released with the title Faces of Death VII, was a condensed version of Nick Bougas's 1989 film Death Scenes, hosted by Church of Satan founder Anton LaVey; and another assemblage of stock footage titled Faces of Death part 7 was released as an online file sometime during the late 1990s. [46] Faces of Death 8 followed soon after. Released ...

  9. Death Scenes - Wikipedia

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    The film was followed by two sequels, Death Scenes 2 from 1992 [2] and Death Scenes 3 from 1993. [3] Death Scenes 2 provides an inside look at the history of death, particularly war between the United States and other foreign conflicts. A short introduction of the horrors of war begins with the ideological findings from Ernst Friedrich (1894-1967).