Post by rachelcarson1953 on Apr 6, 2017 3:57:18 GMT
We need more old timey photos!!!
au.pinterest.com/evileve2012/memento-mori-victorian-death-photos/?lp=true
Wow! Seek, and ye shall find, ask, and it shall be given...
At least now we know that Elvis is really dead.
I know that cost was an issue, and photography was (nearly) instant and a new thing, but I personally would rather have had an artist come in, sketch the deceased and make a lovely painting of that child in an idyllic setting. That's one thing artists can do that photographers can't - well, at least until CGI.
I've done a few pet portraits with old photos as reference, after the pet had died, but the photos were all of the living pet, and I made an original composition from those and other reference materials.
After my grandmother died, her daughter (my aunt) had black and white prints made from a studio-shot negative of her mother as a young woman, and hand-tinted one for each of her siblings. It's the only image I have of her, and it is lovely.