Mourning portrait
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A mourning portrait is the act of capturing a just-deceased loved one's image for posterity, often children. It was sometimes believed that the soul would live on in the portraits. In the early days of photography in the late 1800s, the daguerreotype made it easier and less expensive to create a mourning portrait, as well as faster, allowing people to capture photographs of the dead soon after passing. This led to the proliferation of daguerreotype mourning portraits.
[edit] References in popular culture
- Grace Stewart (Nicole Kidman) comes across a photo album of daguerrotype mourning portraits in The Others (2001).
[edit] Links
American Daguerrotypes - Chapter 3 on Mourning Portraits
