What this article leaves out is that unposed photographs of the dead (particularly children) were common in Victorian times - including in my family. My grandmo

What this article leaves out is that unposed photographs of the dead (particularly children) were common in Victorian times - including in my family. My grandmother had (and I saw and was able to examine) such a photo of a dead infant, perhaps two - her sister. Her father, an interior decorator, was on a buying trip to Germany when the child became ill and died, and this may have been a factor in preserving a momento mori of the child corpse for him to see when he returned to London. Cameras weren't very portable, so taking photographs of a sick child just before death wasn't usually a possibility, as would be the case today.