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wild west death portaits? Anonymous
is anyone familiar with the old portraits where they would like dress up the person that was dead and take a picture of them as if a living person? etc? i need to know if there was a specific name for this kind of photography so i can go research some source imagery for paintings... i know that it was common place to take pictures of dead criminals back then, but i think i recall the genre spanning multiple ranges of society
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heres on more, but still an outlaw shot
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Taken from wikipedia

The earliest post-mortem photographs are usually close-ups of the face or shots of the full body and rarely include the coffin. The subject is usually depicted so as to seem in a deep sleep, or else arranged to appear more lifelike. Children were often shown in repose on a couch or in a crib, sometimes posed with a favorite toy or other plaything. It was not uncommon to photograph very young children with a family member, most frequently the mother. Adults were more commonly posed in chairs or even braced on specially-designed frames. Flowers were also a common prop in post-mortem photography of all types.