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Lovenheim is a television producer. He studied film at the University of Southern California, and his career began at Columbia Pictures where he supervised new development and feature films. He then moved into the television arm of Columbia to head long-form development of series and miniseries.
Jun 19, 2016 · Dead wrong: Wikipedia, BBC news, and ScienceBlogs have lied to you about Victorian post-mortem photography. Facts checked.
Dec 18, 2018 · In most modern cultures, photography has become some sort of defense against death. Funeral services and obituaries frequently feature images of the memorialized in their prime, and images of deceased relatives adorn the walls and tables of countless homes.
Dec 16, 2020 · In some images, flowers surround the deceased. In others, symbols of death and time — like an hourglass or a clock — mark the portrait as a post-mortem photograph. By capturing the dead on film, Victorian death photos gave families the illusion of control.
Dec 30, 2016 · As Kraus Jr. explains, “Post-mortem photography consoled the bereaved and memorialized the dead. A photograph was a tangible object that represented the deceased and could be held or worn close...
- Anna Marks
Jun 4, 2016 · Photographs of loved ones taken after they died may seem morbid to modern sensibilities. But in Victorian England, they became a way of commemorating the dead and blunting the sharpness of...
Jul 19, 2017 · For many, procuring a postmortem photo must have felt like a funerary ritual—a way of allowing the dead to become fully dead. But this new invention also had something of resurrection about...
