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andrewducker ([personal profile] andrewducker) wrote2017-12-01 12:00 pm

Interesting Links for 01-12-2017

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Victorian ‘Post-Mortem’ Photographs Aren't

[personal profile] jack 2017-12-01 01:54 pm (UTC)(link)
Yeah, bullshit captions are a lot more common than doctored photographs (which are a lot more common than professionally doctored photos)
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Re: Victorian ‘Post-Mortem’ Photographs Aren't

[personal profile] jack 2017-12-02 01:28 pm (UTC)(link)
I wasn't familiar with them specifically, so I might have been convinced too depending where I saw them; I was just reminding myself to judge photos and accompanying text separately.

It also happens that I saw another article about victorian novelty photos at some point, so I was much more primed to think "these are people having a lark on camera" than "this is some serious custom".