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The invention of the Daquerreotype in 1839 made portraiture much more commonplace, as many of those who were unable to afford the commission of a painted portrait could afford to sit for a photography session. This cheaper and quicker method also provided the middle class with a means for memorializing dead loved ones.
These photographs served less as a reminder of mortality than as a keepsake to remember the deceased. This was especially common with infants and young children; Victorian Era childhood mortality rates were extremely high, and a post-mortem photograph might be the only image of the child the family ever had. The later invention of the Carte de Visite, which allowed multiple prints to be made from a single negative, meant that copies of the image could be mailed to relatives.
The practice eventually peaked in popularity around the end of the 19th century and died out as "snapshot" photography became more commonplace, although a few examples of formal memorial portraits were still being produced well into the 20th century.
"The boundaries which divide Life from Death are at best
shadowy and vague. Who shall say where the one ends, and where the other
begins?" ~Edgar Allan Poe WWW.CEMETERYPRINTS.COM
I prefer winter and fall, when you feel the bone structure
of the landscape -- the loneliness of it -- the dead feeling of winter. Something
waits beneath it -- the whole story doesn't show.
- Andrew Wyeth
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