Could Post Mortem Photography become popular again in our day and age?

1. Post Mortem Photography by Jay Ruby

1.1. -Started in Europe

1.2. Pictures were taken of the wealthy

1.3. Pictures were taken of deceased children

1.3.1. Included

1.3.2. Included

1.3.3. Excluded

2. Strange Past

2.1. Never seen as creepy

2.1.1. Define actions as necessary

2.2. American's continued the trend until the 20th century

2.3. Died down when technology started booming, and photos of a loved one can be taken at any point during our lives.

3. Dan Meinwald- Memento Mori

3.1. Spread through both Europe and America in the 19th Century

3.1.1. Materials

3.1.2. Personel

3.1.3. Services

3.1.4. Duration

3.2. Existed as the daguerreotype process

3.3. Originally expensive, but as the number of photographers increased the price went down

4. Gone but Not Forgotten

4.1. In the early 19th Century you could find the pictures of the deceased in the newspaper

4.1.1. Dependencies

4.1.2. Milestones

4.2. Post Mortem photography could sometimes reflect religious beliefs

4.2.1. Schedule

4.2.2. Budget

4.3. The deceased were sometimes sitting up and posed.

4.3.1. KPI's

5. Post Mortem Photography --Unsettling

5.1. They would pose the deceased in way to make them seem as if they were still living

5.2. Posed the decease with their favorite things such as a dog or a toy

5.3. Used to different types of devices to hold them up

6. Post Mortem Photography today

6.1. Technology is more high tech

6.2. Digital cameras allow us to take pictures of our loved ones before they die

6.3. These photographs were also shown to loved one ones who lived far away and had a hard time traveling. With trains and cars people don't have this problem today