Victorian Photography

http://indigoplum.co.uk/news/2013/2/photography_in_the_victorian_era
http://www.viralnova.com/post-mortem-victorian-photographs/


Queen Victoria was the fist monarch to be captured on a comera. this is because photography became available in the 1830s. the picture took several hours to capture therefor the person having there picture taken was wold have to try and hold a small for long. this later change because it was next to impossible to hold a smile for that long therefore fixed expression became the fashion.
when it came to photographing children it proved to be quite a task because children can not be still for long. looking at some of the picture of small children, the mother had to hide behind a cloth and hold the child. you can somethings see the mother trying to hide behind the child.

one of the common thing done in the Victorian times is having a picture of the dead taken. this was one of the main way for a loved one to preserve the memory of their dead. it was very common fo a mother who had just lost a child/baby to hold them in picture as if they were alive to make the dead look as lifelike as possible.
photographer would try different things to make the dead look as alive as possible. one of those ways was by posing the dead with their favourite thing E.G. toys for children  or even pets. sometimes they would try and make the dead look as if they r sleeping.

a dead person posing with his dogs

a dead girl posing with her toys.