Post-Mortem Photography

<sub>I'm fascinated, captivated with Post-Mortem Photography, also known as Memento Mori.
It's photographing the recently dead.

This practice was very popular in Europe on the Victorian epoque, when Death was perceived as something much more romantic than morbid, so they photographed their dead realtives in order to remember them with love.

When this practiced was valid, photography was in it's beginings so it was necessary that people stayed still for several hours for the light to print without flaws on the film. (like when u use bulb)

For that photographers needed devices to hold people in the same position, the same they did with deceased persons or babies.

On early samples adults were placed as to apear in everyday positions and children and babies posed with toys or lying in couchs or cribs.
. . .The effect of life was sometimes enhanced by either propping the subject's eyes open or painting pupils onto the photographic print, and many early images (especially tintypes and ambrotypes) have a rosy tint added to the cheeks of the corpse. . .

When children were not baptismed they were photographed and buried with opened eyes for them to se "the glory of the lord", on Latin America this kind of photographs were called 'Angelitos' or 'Little Angels'.</sub> </sub>

_{I wish i could have been there, photographing deceased people and at my death been photographed too, or at list to have an album U_u}