2 Reasons Post-mortem Photography Wasn’t Creepy to Victorians

Where it still persists today might surprise you.

Malinda Fusco
The Collector
Published in
5 min readMar 26, 2022

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Post-mortem Photograph of Emporer Frederick III; Source

There’s no doubt that there’s something unsettling about post-mortem photography. Maybe it makes us consider our own mortality more seriously. Or maybe photographs of dead people are just weird.

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Malinda Fusco
The Collector

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