Death Portraiture
October 24, 2020
Victorian era death portraits are an infamously creepy, yet beautiful means of memorializing the deceased. Join the Babes in a discussion of this artistic expression of grief, the ubiquity of Victorian era ghosts, and Frida Kahlo’s death mask. Plus we share our individual death plans! It doesn’t get more intimate than that.
LIFE IS SHORT ART IS LONG.
(so is this episode.)
Sources:
Death (in the Eye) of the Beholder: An Encounter with Victorian Post-mortem Photography By Aténé Mendelyté, University of Amsterdam, (Published in 2012).
Aliza Kelly, Stars Like Us: Astrology with Aliza Kelly
“EP58 Alua Arthur: The Death Doula”. (June 8, 2020). (Podcast)
Links:
https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-36389581
https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/victorian-post-mortem-photographs
https://www.history.com/news/post-mortem-photos-history
http://vv.arts.ucla.edu/terminals/meinwald/meinwald3.html
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/02/18/style/iphone-death-portraits.html
https://www.cnn.com/style/article/death-masks/index.html
https://www.thecollector.com/post-mortem-photography/
http://www.goingwithgrace.com/about-alua
https://mashable.com/2016/10/15/death-masks/
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2007/sep/27/usa.art
https://www.bbc.com/news/av/magazine-23355060
http://www.theterrestrial.com/interview/nick-reynolds/
http://www.synaesthesiajournal.com/uploads/7/3/4/7/73473431/mendelyte_v1_n3.pdf
https://agoodgoodbye.com/end-of-life-issues/ted-radio-hour-on-rethinking-death/