POGO | Music Producer, Remix Artist | Nick Bertke. More hidden mothers in Victorian photography: post-mortem photographs or not? As I mentioned in the original post on Hidden mothers in Victorian portraits, in 19th century photographs of children you can sometimes spot a mother hiding behind a chair or underneath a decorative throw, ostensibly trying to hold their squirmy children still during the long exposure times of the camera. (You can see the original post and images here.) The response to the first post on ‘hidden mothers’ has been almost as ridiculously interesting as the phenomena itself, so I thought it called for a follow up post in order to show some more of these intriguing images and to share some of the insights and debates that these photographs have stirred.
In short, are any of the children in these images dead? And if so, why is the mother hidden? Several other commentators disagreed (including the fantastic vintage photography bloggers Mrs Marvel from Who Were They? // Photographs in this post are from a range of different places: click on individual images to go to the source. Susan E. Anne Siems: Paintings. Matthew Cusick. _____ JOAO RUAS - FERAL-KID.COM. Roy lichtenstein. Fine art News, Videos, Reviews and Gossip - io9. Lilac dream. Lora-zombie on deviantART. Morbid Tea: not well mannered lady | Bio.
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