Comments on: Wisconsin Death Trip: Just In Time For Christmas? http://www.thejanuarist.com/wisconsin-death-trip-just-in-time-for-christmas/ PAST vs PRESENT Wed, 15 Jun 2011 16:01:37 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.5 By: Lisa Marine http://www.thejanuarist.com/wisconsin-death-trip-just-in-time-for-christmas/#comment-375 Lisa Marine Tue, 26 Jan 2010 18:56:25 +0000 http://www.thejanuarist.com/?p=587#comment-375 Hi, This is a really nice, interesting post about these Death Trip images. Will you please also link back to www.wisconsinhistory.org/whi? Thanks! Hi,

This is a really nice, interesting post about these Death Trip images. Will you please also link back to http://www.wisconsinhistory.org/whi?

Thanks!

]]> By: Jackie Mehlmann-Wicks http://www.thejanuarist.com/wisconsin-death-trip-just-in-time-for-christmas/#comment-306 Jackie Mehlmann-Wicks Thu, 03 Dec 2009 14:53:20 +0000 http://www.thejanuarist.com/?p=587#comment-306 This is a hobby I'm not sure I want to get into, but now that I've seen your link to the Sleeping Beauty: Memorial Photography in America, I'm afraid I'm hooked. There is something at once touching and incredibly creepy about that trend. I'm especially fascinated by the photograph of the little girl lying on her bed in her finery, with her dolly. This is a hobby I’m not sure I want to get into, but now that I’ve seen your link to the Sleeping Beauty: Memorial Photography in America, I’m afraid I’m hooked. There is something at once touching and incredibly creepy about that trend. I’m especially fascinated by the photograph of the little girl lying on her bed in her finery, with her dolly.

]]> By: Lass http://www.thejanuarist.com/wisconsin-death-trip-just-in-time-for-christmas/#comment-304 Lass Thu, 03 Dec 2009 14:30:50 +0000 http://www.thejanuarist.com/?p=587#comment-304 I have a friend who collects post-mortem photographs - a hobby that slightly alarmed me at first, but I have come to see beauty in these pictures. (I agree, though, that the pictures of children are particularly hard to bear.) Dressing and posing with the deceased was in vogue during the 1800's in this country. In fact, to this day in parts of the American south, it's common to see family members gather around a coffin for one last shot with Aunt Jane or whomever. I have a friend who collects post-mortem photographs – a hobby that slightly alarmed me at first, but I have come to see beauty in these pictures. (I agree, though, that the pictures of children are particularly hard to bear.)

Dressing and posing with the deceased was in vogue during the 1800′s in this country. In fact, to this day in parts of the American south, it’s common to see family members gather around a coffin for one last shot with Aunt Jane or whomever.

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