As a note: Any if all information related to post-mortem photography is very limited. The subject alone is slow in its evolution and the only particular changes throughout the years are that of medium, and purpose, i.e. personal photographs versus artistic and scientific photography.
1340 – Artists depict death in a Memento Mori fashion. Memento Mori is Latin for Remember your death. It is also translated to remember your mortality. I.e. this is the time in which people begin to recognize their mortality as individuals. This recognition is shown through paintings involving symbols involving death
1510-1511 – Leonardo Da Vinci breaks the mould and begins to document the human body from observation from the inside out. This was the first time ever that a person ever explored a deceased body. These sketches are the most well known recordings of the deceased human body.
1839 - Post-mortem photography begins shortly after the convenience of the Daguerreotype is created. This made commonplace portraiture easier, as well as post-mortem portraiture.
1839 – The most common use of post-mortem portraiture involves an emphasis of appropriate close-ups, often with the subject posed with their family. Children are the only people to be photographed and are often shown reclining on a crib or couch with a favorite plaything.
1840 – Props begin to be used more frequently with the increase of photographs taken.
1854 – Ambrotypes are patented, and used to a second type of image to choose from.
1855 – Adult portraits increase in popularity. Adults are posed with family members, either in a bed or sitting upright, propped with specially designed frames to hold their body upright.
1856 – Tintypes are patented and are used to photograph loved ones, primarily for the use f the image being place into a locket. Tintypes are am improvement upon the ambrotype.
1982 – Joel-Peter Witkin begins exhibiting his photographs of his disturbing photographs around the world, leaving viewers shocked.
2006 – Sally Mann shows her What Remains documentary as the Sundance Film Festival, showing her entire career.
Present Day – Post mortem photography is still practiced throughout the world today, mostly involving an artistic, yet shocking approach to it, i.e. Joel-Peter Witkin. The one other primary way in which people utilize it is to document the bodies of “incorruptible saints”, which withstand the test of time despite being deceased. Their bodies remain intact, and do not decay at the same rate as normal corpses.
1340 – Artists depict death in a Memento Mori fashion. Memento Mori is Latin for Remember your death. It is also translated to remember your mortality. I.e. this is the time in which people begin to recognize their mortality as individuals. This recognition is shown through paintings involving symbols involving death
1510-1511 – Leonardo Da Vinci breaks the mould and begins to document the human body from observation from the inside out. This was the first time ever that a person ever explored a deceased body. These sketches are the most well known recordings of the deceased human body.
1839 - Post-mortem photography begins shortly after the convenience of the Daguerreotype is created. This made commonplace portraiture easier, as well as post-mortem portraiture.
1839 – The most common use of post-mortem portraiture involves an emphasis of appropriate close-ups, often with the subject posed with their family. Children are the only people to be photographed and are often shown reclining on a crib or couch with a favorite plaything.
1840 – Props begin to be used more frequently with the increase of photographs taken.
1854 – Ambrotypes are patented, and used to a second type of image to choose from.
1855 – Adult portraits increase in popularity. Adults are posed with family members, either in a bed or sitting upright, propped with specially designed frames to hold their body upright.
1856 – Tintypes are patented and are used to photograph loved ones, primarily for the use f the image being place into a locket. Tintypes are am improvement upon the ambrotype.
1982 – Joel-Peter Witkin begins exhibiting his photographs of his disturbing photographs around the world, leaving viewers shocked.
2006 – Sally Mann shows her What Remains documentary as the Sundance Film Festival, showing her entire career.
Present Day – Post mortem photography is still practiced throughout the world today, mostly involving an artistic, yet shocking approach to it, i.e. Joel-Peter Witkin. The one other primary way in which people utilize it is to document the bodies of “incorruptible saints”, which withstand the test of time despite being deceased. Their bodies remain intact, and do not decay at the same rate as normal corpses.
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