Victorian Death Photography: Postmortem Posers

<p>The Victorians created the unsettling art of death photography - posing their deceased love ones in family portraits as if they were alive. How did they manage to make corpses strike poses? Why did they want to?</p><br><p>Maddy and Anthony are joined by Brandy Schillace, author of <em>Death’s Summer Coat - What Death and Dying Cal Tell Us about Life and Living </em>to flick through the strangest, and most moving, of family photo albums.</p><br><p>Edited by Tom Delargy. Produced by Stuart Beckwith. Senior Producer is Charlotte Long.</p><br><p>Sign up to History Hit at&nbsp;<a href="http://historyhit.com/subscribe" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">historyhit.com/subscribe</a>&nbsp;using code '<strong>BLACKFRIDAYPOD'</strong>&nbsp;at checkout, for $1/£1 per month for 4 months and you’ll get nearly £30 off our normal monthly price over your first 4 months.</p> <hr><p style='color:grey; font-size:0.75em;'> Hosted on Acast. See <a style='color:grey;' target='_blank' rel='noopener noreferrer' href='https://acast.com/privacy'>acast.com/privacy</a> for more information.</p>