shiftythrifting (dot) com/post/730994707615842304/a-neat-little-photo-book-i-found-at-a-local-shop Do you think these are post-mortem photos? I personally doubt it.
Not post-mortem, no.
Everyone is worked up into a tizzy over the possibility that "the people in a Victorian photo could be DEAD and you MIGHT NOT EVEN KNOW IT!!!!
when in reality, you'd. you'd definitely know it. post-mortem photos are usually pretty obvious, because they're not really trying to make the people look awake and alive. either they're coffin photos, or they're of people in reclining positions. there is no such thing as a standing post-mortem photo or one where the subject is sitting fully upright; posing stands were flimsy things designed to help living people keep still during longer-than-modern exposure times. they cannot support dead weight. if a person is supporting themself in a photo, congrats- they're alive
if a person's eyes are fully open, they're alive
if it's being touted as "you'd never guess they were dead BUT-" they're alive. I saw one once which showed a (living) teen girl and claimed her body had been hung from the ceiling with wires to appear upright. corpse marionette action. and people call the actual Victorians morbid
in short, if they look awake and alive. they're alive. boring but true
