Mourning portrait
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A mourning portrait is a photographic image of a newly deceased loved one recorded for posterity, often of a child. It was sometimes believed that the soul would live on in the portraits. In the early practice of photography, the invention of the daguerreotype gave rise to capturing photographs of the dead soon after passing. [1]
[edit] References in popular culture
- Grace Stewart (Nicole Kidman) comes across a photo album of daguerrotype mourning portraits in The Others (2001).
[edit] See also
[edit] References
- ^ American Daguerrotypes - Chapter 3 on Mourning Portraits
