By 1839, when the daguerreotype was invented, the longest exposures were a minute and a half. Victorian PM photos are much more expensive than a normal family photo. Don't believe the moronic sites that say otherwise. I am no expert on whether or not these photos are truly post mortem, I'm just sayin' It would be pretty hard to keep a rotting body around the house for very long. That's exactly what I was thinking. It looks like she's wearing a wedding dress. Tagged: dead bodies . If you are dead your muscles are completely relaxed so obvsiouly the mother is not dead, and the baby is holding her head up and you can tell by the facial expression, the muscles are not relaxed. The demand for it is growing, with more and more people paying around 2,000 to have their loved one brought back to life for 2-3 days before the funeral takes place. Not all victorian photos feature dead people. The death bed repose was sometimes popular. Instead, her corpse was arranged upright at a table, with a stiff drink, an ash-tray and a pack of menthol fags in front of her. Party lover Miriam Marie Birkbank was posed at a table with her favourite beer after she died at 53 Credit: Handout. Munforte, Patrizia. He was there to drop off the body of a 41-year-old Barberton man who . Its head would drop and it would topple over. There are obviously some major logistical difficulties with dressing up corpses and forcing them into these party poses. April 22, 2014. Wish I could find him again somewhere to see if hes actually dead cuz if he is its probably the creepiest of them all! The emulsions of the time were over sensitive to blue and blue eyes can look white. When our baby granddaughter died at 8 months our son and daughter in law were asked if they would like a couple of photo's of alyssa of coarse the answer was yes. His eyes are not white they were light blue which recorded as white with the emulsion of the time. For the people who wouldn't be seen dead in a boring old coffin, the only way to go out in style is to get pumped full of embalming fluid and posed up like a waxwork at your own funeral.