Morgue Photograph, 1918
Posted in morgue photographs on Apr 7th, 2008
Our culture has been extraordinarily successful at screening the reality of ‘death’ from sight. Death still remains something of a taboo subject, and the look the dead possess – despite countless TV and movie depictions – is unfamiliar to most of us.
When I came across a box of morgue photographs from 1918 that lacked documentation, [...]