For those who may be sensitive, this article contains graphic content. Please be advised to click away now or please read on. Capturing the image of a loved one in their final moments before burial is the last moment for family and friends to hold a visual memory of them. This practice dates to the… Continue reading Photography and Death
Tag: Edwardian
A Mourning Tour: An Edwardian Miniature c.1910
The Edwardian Era, 1901 to 1910, was one of the primary catalysts to end the mourning industry. When I reference the industry of mourning, this does not mean that there was a time when mourning had ended as a concept, but the industry of standardised fashion to facilitate and generate money from grief. Queen Victoria… Continue reading A Mourning Tour: An Edwardian Miniature c.1910
Post-Victorian Lockets and Pendants
The decline of the mourning industry was not exclusively ‘mourning’ related, but an actual change in fashion and social taste. How to present sentimentality and love in a public forum through a jewel was very different in the post 1901 environment than it had been since 1861. Two generations had passed under a very static… Continue reading Post-Victorian Lockets and Pendants