Blind or Deceased? Opinions Sought Please

[Redroger]

My phrasing Carol. But the chilld seems to be to be standing not sitting or propped up. All the farwell photos i have seen the deceased is lying down carefully arranged.

[jess5athome]

......................................................... the chilld seems to be to be standing not sitting or propped up. All the farwell photos i have seen the deceased is lying down carefully arranged......................

That's what I thought while following the thread from the opening post, then I did a search for Post Mortem photographs  I've never seen anything like it before.

Frank.

[Treetotal]

What an eye opener isn't it Frank...when you see the lengths that the Victorians went to, to make the photos look "Normal"
I believe it was to compensate for the lack of photos whilst the child was still living...although the older child is smiling..rare in Victorian times, she doesn't look comfortable.
We all have differing opinions and I respect that.
Carol

[jess5athome]

I honestly had never seen anything like it Carol, I expected to see children, adults etc "Laid out" (if that's not too insensitive a word) in a coffin or on a bed, but to see children obviously deceased, sat on chairs with brothers and sisters and adults sat with sons and daughters was something totally unexpected, and some of the deceased were even in, shall we say, a state of early decay  .

Strange times indeed in the society of the day.

Frank.

[Ruskie]

My phrasing Carol. But the chilld seems to be to be standing not sitting or propped up. All the farwell photos i have seen the deceased is lying down carefully arranged.

You will find many examples of standing and other poses if you google a few appropriate words.

[cazza59]

My phrasing Carol. But the chilld seems to be to be standing not sitting or propped up. All the farwell photos i have seen the deceased is lying down carefully arranged.

You will find many examples of standing and other poses if you google a few appropriate words.

I thought we had already proven standing PM photos are possible and as we have said, there are examples on the net and even on the um, link  I posted. 

Caz

[Redroger]

OK. I am convinced that the child was in fact dead. I think that at the bottom of things this situation just shows that judging one time period by the standards of our own, or by the standards of another historic period, or for that matter by those of another ethnicity or civilisation is not really feasible.

[Treetotal]

I know it is hard to image so here is a diagram to show how it is done and to further our understanding.

Carol

[JenB]

Strange times indeed in the society of the day.

But surely the point is that although it seems almost unbelievable to us, it wasn't at all strange in Victorian society?