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Victorian Death Photography: Postmortem Posers

Victorian Death Photography: Postmortem Posers

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The Victorians created the unsettling art of death photography - posing their deceased love ones in family portraits as if they were alive. How did they manage to make corpses strike poses? Why did they want to?


Maddy and Anthony are joined by Brandy Schillace, author of Death’s Summer Coat - What Death and Dying Cal Tell Us about Life and Living to flick through the strangest, and most moving, of family photo albums.


Edited by Tom Delargy. Produced by Stuart Beckwith. Senior Producer is Charlotte Long.


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Really love this whole podcast series. Found it mid March after a tip off from Maddy’s Mum and have been hooked ever since. Maddy and Anthony are really great presenters and so diligent about calling out the otherings of the past so they don’t get swept under the carpet and somehow excused and accepted. They have covered so many compelling subjects but this particular one was extremely interesting for me as my Nan was photographed in 1896 lying next to her still born identical twin. My own late Mother remembered seeing it and as you can imagine it became a very precious heirloom for us ………. Oops ! Sorry ! I meant, my Nan put it out for the rubbish bin collectors in the 1940s !! 😂😂 I’m so sad we don’t still have it in the family it would have been an extraordinary thing to have.

Fascinating and pertinent !

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