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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 e
by 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 agoVictorian 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