Not lost but gone before ~ Victorian post mortem photography
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- Опубликовано: 13 сен 2024
- A video I made about victorian post mortem photography. As photography was a new science in the mid 19th century many people didnt have pictures of their loved ones alive so when someone passed away the opportunity was very often taken to acquire a last image of them, before their face and physical presence was gone forever.
A Note about my video - I made this film using images readily available on google pictures by typing in "victorian post mortem photos" I didnt visit any site in particular in get these pictures and I do not profit in any way from any of the videos I make.
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Absolutely Perfect.."When you lose someone you love, you die too, and you wait around for your body to catch up".
When my little brother committed suicide 4yrs ago he left a video seconds before in his cellphone. For me in the beginning I would watch it and for some reason seeing and hearing him brought comfort and a sense of finality to his life and death. Its not something you whip out at the grocery store to show an old friend. However I do understand why families took photos of deceased loved ones. Its a part of the healing process and can bring closure.
Donna Gilhousen "However I do understand why families took photos of deceased loved ones. Its a part of the healing process and can bring closure."
*Hunger, by the Dead, for the Undead.* ✗✗
I'm so sorry for your loss.
Beautiful, sweet and touching. Your selection of music and voice over is perfection. Thank you for showing us this tender tribute to this period that devoted so much to retain the memory of a lost loved one.
The music is from the BBC's Sense and Sensibility 2008 with Willoughby and Marianne going round his future house.
Thank you for this video with photos from an era, when death was a part of life.
It seems, as if the bodies where dressed and placed in front of the lense with respect and deep love.
Beautifully done! The Victorians left us so much with photographs. It's not just a few lines in history books... these photos make us realize suffering for their loved ones.
Such a beautiful video, the sound matches the scenes of loss to a tee. How comforting it must have been to have one last memory to replay over and over in the form of a photograph. Thanks.
What a wonderful way to show a time in history, and the traditions of that particular age. It breaks my heart to see the small children laid out. I can't even imagine what it must have felt like to have pictures taken that way. The music in the background is stunning.
Fantastic tribute....it just goes to show that although centuries pass between generations we still feel death the same way and long to be around those who have gone from our lives
A few of these are not post mortem but for the most part, this is one of the better PM videos. Thank you.
This music is enchanting. Quite an interesting history as well, I knew nothing of Victorian post mortem photography prior to seeing this video. Thank you for taking the time to put this together.
I love the Victorian portrayal of this type of thing... Yet another superb video. Thank you for making this.
Deliciously creepy and beautiful. Morbid is in the eye of the beholder. Thanks for taking time to make this. Whether you view it as morbid or not.....it is indeed a part of history and in a way they live on thru photos.
This is very beautiful! The music choice was perfect ! We are all going to be here one day,but death doesn't need tobe a.scary thing
jessica huffman And how the fuck would you know,have you died before?.
+L٥ﻻﻉ√٥υ no,but I'm not afraid of it! I know when I die,christ will one day resurrect both body and soul
@@GoldenGateNum9 aren't you just full of class? NOT
@@irisheyesofbelfast ='( Jesus wept
Fascinating! Beautiful and creepy at the same time. Good job! Thanks for posting.
Quite beautiful. This is how those families would have wanted their photos portrayed. Wonderful job.
At first, these pictures seem morbid but the more you look at them, the more you see how they were put together with love and there's a lot that's beautiful in that.
You really did an awesome job! Thank you so much
The pictures of the children were extremely heartbreaking, but this was the thing and I'm glad it was before my time. I know its still done because I have an aunt who is OBSESSED with taking photos of the dearly departed.
GhostWatching~
Your "Not lost but gone before" video is extraordinary. I was surprised to be presented with a subject (victorian post-mortem photography) which - prior to watching the vid - I never would have thought I'd want to see. Yet, after watching it, I found it to be beautiful.
Thank You.
Sadly,we have become squeamish about all things 'death'.These beautiful photographs are a reminder of just how realistic our Victorian ancestors were about the 'loss' of loved ones.A highly sensitively created clip!
A little disconcerting at first, but once you let the old, tired taboos about death fall away, there's an unforseen beauty to the dead. Once again, and as always, a fine video, sir/madam. A fine video, indeed. : )
This is beautiful,thank you for making this!!
SO many young people and children. So beautiful and peaceful they looked.
The pictures are fascinating and the audio is beautiful.
Thank you.
I think these photographs are hauntingly beautiful. It's striking how people died so young back then. You can tell by the way these folks were prepared for burial that they were very loved. I can understand why these families would want to use photography to have a keepsake of the person they lost.
Exactly, it shows how important people should be, and this capture the essence of such tragic losses. And there is still more to it that I cannot put into words right now. Is like eternity standing still...
I have to say that this is amazing, its sad, moving, and most importantly thought provoking, something i did not expect to see on youtube.
Thank you
Splendid work on your video! Impeccable images and sound!
The babies and children are hard to see :(
your videos are always so fascinating! thanks for posting this.
Excellent upload but this was sad - I had just finished watching your collection on the Victorians as well - great timing : )
The Kids are the hardest to see. Yet, Everyone looks so At Peace.. Like the weight of the world was lifted. To them all RIP!
I couldn`t sleep last night because the images of these pictures kept going through my head.
Beautiful! Love & respect for this work! thank you :)
Great Job. Most people would think of stuff like this morbid. I see it as a beautiful thing. It helped give the families peace. People nowadays don't understand. This may have been the only pictures they had of that loved one.
This was so incredibly well done. You truly have found your calling in life. Thank you very much for this.
Very moving! Makes you realize how lucky we are with modern medicine, so many infant deaths. Thanks for sharing!
My wife very recently died from cancer. I am a professional photographer and I wish that when she passed that she had been in better physical condition. As it was, I wanted to remember her from a healthier time in our lives, not as she was at the end of her life. That image is forever burned into my mind and needs no photograph. Even with the pain of loss, the artistry of the photographer shows through in some of these images. Some were to catalog and some paid tribute to those photographed.
Beautiful vid, you have done justice to some amazingly, touching photos.
Makes me sad to look at these photos but they move me very much. Some things never change, people´s hearts broke then when their loved ones died and they break today still.
The photo at 2:16 is particularly heartbreaking...The father's look is so haunting and devistated...So sad to lose a loved one, even worse when they go so soon...
This was actually the norm back then. Not only did they want a picture of their loved ones and that to have a showing..but they wanted to celebrate their life too, not just their death.
Fantastic social history. I don't find this "creepy" in the least...merely....melancholic. Here were people who were loved-and like us all, sooner or later, they are gone forever, but immortalised through photography.
The fact that these people are at least 120 years gone just adds to the nuance.
It's so sad to see how young a lot of these people were... especially the babies and children.
May all these souls rest in peace. =)
it's so interesting to think that death was such a close thing; that it was almost normal to see and touch and be with a corpse for, possibly, days after death. mourning was also immensely fashionable, thanks to Queen Victoria. it's sad to think how violently (literally and figuratively) WWI destroyed these traditions.
great video!
Sad... Beautiful... Haunting... Thanks for sharing this one.
Wow. Beautifully made video. Such an intense atmosphere to this. faved.
So beautiful and poignant. Very well done.
Well done very touching and beautiful.You have a unique touch with this one and i Thank You for it.
Great video andwell made. I'd never heard ofthis before. Sad but interesting.
death can be a scary thing but at the same time a beautifull thing... i´ve lost my son, my sister and my dad and the thing that keeps me going is the thought of them being together in a better and beautifull place.... i dont think death is something so fear.... hugs from me :)
There is a beautiful thread that resonates through your work, one of respect and kindness. It is always a pleasure to visit Ghostwatching where likeminded people like to gather in this inoffensive corner of RUclips.
those poor kids,those pictures really hit me hard.so sad.
Wow... GREAT JOB on the video !!! It's lovely.
This is very interesting. Thanks for posting. Yes, post mortem photographs are a large part of history.. Sometimes this was the only photo the family would ever have of a loved one, and they had drawings done or later, photos taken , as they had none of the beloved in life, and this "death" one was their last chance. I have a large collection of mourning items, though I haven't started collecting the photographs yet
the custom of sending flowers to a funeral is because back in those days there was little refrigeration and the flowers covered the smell of death. embalming was not as sophisticated as it is today. can you imagine the stench.
Beautifully portrayed with the way you began and ended, I found an older cemetery where I live and often wonder about the children that passed away so young. your choice of music added depth to the ones passed away.
Haunting but strangely beautiful at the same time.
Actually, back in those days families were starting to spread out and move away from hometowns which they had resided in for many generations. It was a transition of leaving behind your ancestors which were all buried in the same place. Not very many families could afford to take regular pictures of themselves so the only portrait that was usually taken was at the time of death so the immediate family could take a memory of a loved one as they branched out and away from their hometown.
I miss all your videos! Always waiting in anticipation for the next one.
The one photo with the father and child was heartbreaking.
Moved to tears ....because I remember.
This is so sad these poor children and adults even that didn't get to live out their lives to the fullest on this Earth. You know today's modern medicine would have saved most of these people. It just brings tears to my eyes.
I'm sorry. But, that's how it was. :( I know it's sad.
Cirja Paul Child moralities were so high back then only 1 or 2 children would live to adulthood in families and most would not have died of what they did then if they had lived today. Makes me glad I didn't live back then!
Maybe the future people. Like in 100 years... they'll be glad they didn't live in our time.
Cirja Paul Your right about that lol.
Paige Cat
"Happy is the one who died in old age;
happier is the one who died in youth;
happiest is the one who died at birth;
happiest of all the one who was never born"
*Søren Kierkegaard-Either/Or - 1843*
I wish I had lived in the victorian era, something about it just fascinates me.
I do love old photos! :)
@BloodyBrokenGirl Thankyou. My father lost weight in his body because of the cancer which killed him. My mother didn't like the loose way his clothes hung on him--my dad was particular about his appearance and made them stuff his suit to compensate for his thinness. She also made them redo my father's face(she actually watched them do it) so that his coloring was more realistic--a final act of love. Because of my mother,my dad looked as good as possible,but alas stripped of the spark of life...
Absolutley breath-taking... not usully my cup of tea but this was great.
yeah I liked this video a lot more than the others. Its turns something seen as gruesome into something meant to be beautiful.
This is so sad! What a way for a memory...
A person stripped of the spark of life is truly horrific..I saw my father laid out in his coffin and the image of what was left after he'd gone will forever haunt me. My brother also died,but fortunately he was cremated at his request and I never laid eyes on his dead face. I don't understand the reason for these photos.
*0:53** ..So Beautiful.. such unbearable loss... such exquisite sadness & pain...*
i have this Polaroid photo of my father holding a post mortem baby ,
she died 1 week old from an infection she contracted though her umbilical cord..
this photograph & the look in my tragic father's eyes as he cradles his dead mother...
no words i can ever find to describe for you..
*alas, i hold his dead Soul... by sin and sorrow vexed no more. Eternal happiness they share.. forevermore...*
*Why then should we in anguish weep? They are not lost - but have gone before...?*
With Love✗✗
*"Happy is the one who died in old age;*
*happier is the one who died in youth;*
*happiest is the one who died at birth;*
*happiest of all the one who was never born!"*
*Søren Kierkegaard-Either/Or - 1843*
So Sad. Beautiful n Eerie at times but it's the Children I Have a Hard time viewing. They Get to Celebrate Life all over again! R.I.P.
Your videos are always soooo interesting!
Thanx for posting this (:
Another excellent video- thanks as usual Ghostwatching. As a lot of viewers have expressed, not a particularly joyful subject, but it does make you think and in some ways appreciate what you have. The Victorian's did have some strange ways, you just wouldn't see this kind of expression of grief these days, would you?
I was saddened by how many young children were in these photos. Those were hard times in many respects -- medical science couldn't find it's ass with both hands if it tried back then.
In the Victorian age death was always present in the midst of life. Children were aware of it from an early age as their younger or older siblings died. So very different today. I remember asking a cousin at the funeral of her father why her children weren't there. She said at 10 and 8 they were too young!!
very tasteful video.Just shows how the victorians had respect for thier dead.
We called them "box parties". my family has photos of deceased relatives lying in state from the 20's and 30's. Some would call it morbid, but I think it is a way of getting closure. Great video, although it is sad to see Children asleep forever...
Some people may think this is morbid but it was their way of remembering their loved ones. Photos were beautiful, I just wish some of them could have had their eyes closed :(
It is actually rather scary. The children are especially haunting, im not sure I would want to see this again
This made me cry. So sad :( but still so beatiful.
I absolutely loved this video. It was beautiful!
0:56 is heart wrenching...the saddest part.
Nicely done on such a sad subject !
so sad...too many children dies in those era's. Bless them all xx
Well done! I just subscribed. Beautiful, but more than a little creepy. Kind of like a Satie piece.
@sleedolfine15 I am sorry for your loss and I do understand exactly where you're coming from. My elders are all at an age now where they are starting to die and it never is the same. My worst experience was with my husbands grandfather. They did an atrocious job. His skin tone was off and there was makeup in his mustache. I cried because he deserved so much better than the hack job he received.
Strange but lovely at the same time.. Those dead people look so serine and at peace.. I found the ones with their eyes open kind of creepy..There is a small photo album with pictures like this in the museum near my house..It is very interesting to know how different generations handled death..
@sleedolfine15 The reason for these photographs was for the same reason we take pictures of the living. It was to remember these people who had passed away. When photography was a new technology it was expensive and not many people could afford it. The reason for postmortem photography was to have a picture of the person that had recently died. Honestly up until a hundred years ago the family was responsible for the dead body of a loved one and in other cultures this is still practiced.
I know of 2 people who had still born babies and then had photos taken of them wearing baby clothes being cuddled, its a very common thing to do in hospitals after a childs death, they never get to know their child but still have the only photo of them.
Very well done and as some mentioned, these are the only photos the family had of the deceased.
Beautifully done. God bless.
Utterly breathtaking. I cannot help but wonder which movie the music and the vocals are from?
Beautifully done.
Awesome :) Vert tastefully done :) The people speaking where they off a movie or something or just done for this??? thanks :)
thank you for the wonderful video. i enjoyed a beer and a nice peice of cheesecake while watching.
very moving and an out look on our Elders .....money was scarce in some /many families but they did the best they could ... Bless them all
Thank you to the ghost watching .com
VERY tastefully done...Nothing spooky or scary about this only the tragic end to young lives....
I have heard of this but never seen any,thanks for sharing