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Yeah that title is a complete lie, the article has absolutely nothing to do with iphones. It’s also a dumb article. People are taking pictures of their dead lo

by jbob2000 7y ago

Yeah that title is a complete lie, the article has absolutely nothing to do with iphones. It’s also a dumb article. People are taking pictures of their dead loved ones and posting it to Facebook. This is... news?

snazz 7y ago
It's not news, in the sense that it is some kind of timely breaking event. It is, however, an interesting change in the way people perceive death as a concept, which makes it newsworthy. I will concede that the title should be changed for HN's guidelines.
danso 7y ago
I’ve seen candid photos of people at their death bed, but it was usually done by people who were professional photographers, and often part of a photo feature essay. The phenomenon of regular people having a high quality camera at every moment in their lives, and a network to immediately disseminate such photos without a gatekeeper, is most certainly a relatively new phenomenon. Just the other week I saw someone who had posted a candid photo of him and his dying girlfriend at the hospital on Reddit. He was ridiculed and the thread was deleted, but not before someone had screenshotted it and posted it on Twitter to mock. Seeing death in public is still an uncommon thing.
- Swizec 7y ago
  Victorian death photography was a thing. Before cameras were cheap, people used to get photos taken of their dead loved ones because it was literally the only photo they would ever have of that person and they wanted to cherish the memory. Often these photos would be taken as a group family picture. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Post-mortem_photography https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Post-mortem_photography > Post-mortem photography was very common in the nineteenth century when "death occurred in the home and was quite an ordinary part of life."[3] As photography was a new medium, it is plausible that "many daguerreotype post-mortem portraits, especially those of infants and young children, were probably the only photographs ever made of the sitters. The long exposure time made deceased subjects easy to photograph.' > In the Victorian era it was not uncommon to photograph deceased young children or newborns in the arms of their mother. The inclusion of the mother, it has been argued, encourages one to see through the mother's eyes
neuroticfish 7y ago
Also requires an account to read the article. No thanks, I'll just move on.
- bookofjoe 7y ago
  https://archive.is/U2BTg https://archive.is/U2BTg

snazz 7y ago

It's not news, in the sense that it is some kind of timely breaking event. It is, however, an interesting change in the way people perceive death as a concept, which makes it newsworthy. I will concede that the title should be changed for HN's guidelines.

danso 7y ago

I’ve seen candid photos of people at their death bed, but it was usually done by people who were professional photographers, and often part of a photo feature essay. The phenomenon of regular people having a high quality camera at every moment in their lives, and a network to immediately disseminate such photos without a gatekeeper, is most certainly a relatively new phenomenon. Just the other week I saw someone who had posted a candid photo of him and his dying girlfriend at the hospital on Reddit. He was ridiculed and the thread was deleted, but not before someone had screenshotted it and posted it on Twitter to mock. Seeing death in public is still an uncommon thing.

Swizec 7y ago
Victorian death photography was a thing. Before cameras were cheap, people used to get photos taken of their dead loved ones because it was literally the only photo they would ever have of that person and they wanted to cherish the memory. Often these photos would be taken as a group family picture. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Post-mortem_photography https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Post-mortem_photography > Post-mortem photography was very common in the nineteenth century when "death occurred in the home and was quite an ordinary part of life."[3] As photography was a new medium, it is plausible that "many daguerreotype post-mortem portraits, especially those of infants and young children, were probably the only photographs ever made of the sitters. The long exposure time made deceased subjects easy to photograph.' > In the Victorian era it was not uncommon to photograph deceased young children or newborns in the arms of their mother. The inclusion of the mother, it has been argued, encourages one to see through the mother's eyes

neuroticfish 7y ago

Also requires an account to read the article. No thanks, I'll just move on.

bookofjoe 7y ago
https://archive.is/U2BTg https://archive.is/U2BTg