Post Mortem Photography is one of the most freaky and disturbing types of photography ive come across. This deathly and weird feel from these old photos is what i wanted to achieve in my portfolio. Post mortem photos was most often used with babies, to make things all the more bizzare. To take a photo of a dead child, with flowers all over its coffin, is insane. And to think that this was a common practice in Europe.
I love images that can disturb you. Certain emotions are easy to get out of people through imagery like peacefulness, happiness, humor, horror. But to get deep emotions out of people, like enlightenment, sorrow, and disturbedness requires you to get to the center of the person and touch on values beliefs, morals and conventions. The image is creepy to those who view it, but to those who were related to the person in question, they would feel a sense of love and loss, not wierdness. Images that have the ability to move people are the most successful of all.
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