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In reply to the discussion: Memento Mori - 18 Creepy Post-Mortem Photos From The Victorian Era [View all]synergie
(1,901 posts)should not be posted here?
In that age when these photos were taken, the photographer was the "lab".
I'm still confused as to your point, you're saying that these memento mori have something to do with photoshop and you don't like their framing? Who cropped something?
I think you missed the point of the post. Um, I think you might be a bit confused here about your timelines and your understanding of memento mori photos taken in the 19th century, you're getting them confused, and the years are known here.
Perhaps stay on topic and pay attention to the actual thing being discussed and leave the amateur photo dating historian stuff to people that actually study it and understand what they actually did in the late 1800's with these photos. Some did add color, some might have been processed, but not the way you imagine, and not the time period you assert.
For the record, they added color to the dead babies faces sometimes for the parents who did not have any other remembrance of their dead children. They did that in the 1800's.