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Beige posted:If the former is true (I'm not convinced) then it must have been one hell of a photo shoot to convince a child to lay down or sleep in the arms of their father's corpse. Have you considered, perhaps, that they are all alive and we are the dead ones?
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Beige posted:If the former is true (I'm not convinced) then it must have been one hell of a photo shoot to convince a child to lay down or sleep in the arms of their father's corpse. Morphine is a hell of a drug.
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ToxicSlurpee posted:Have you considered, perhaps, that they are all alive and we are the dead ones? Dunno about you, but I'm only a philosophical zombie stuck in a Chinese room.
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Beige posted:If the former is true (I'm not convinced) then it must have been one hell of a photo shoot to convince a child to lay down or sleep in the arms of their father's corpse. the Victorians were kind of hosed up
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Everybody in that photo is alive. The old man looks so stern and weird because he is straining to maintain a steady pose, with a small child he also has to keep steady. His sunken eyes may be simply due to old age and exaggerated by the photographic set up. He is also holding the child's hands, which wouldn't have been arranged with a post mortem photograph. The child looks uncomfortable because the process of photography was uncomfortable and he may be scared by the camera, and the fact his face portrays a clearly identifiable emotion at all is enough to tell he is alive. The picture is probably not a daguerreotype, as it appears to be tarnished, but without the characteristic vignette of an air-exposed daguerreotype, and its exposure very likely wasn't long enough to cause blurring in a seated, properly supported person trying to stay still. And even the first selfie ever, taken in 1839, just two years after the introduction of the crudest long-exposure Daguerre method, already has all the features of the subject sharp enough that you can clearly make out his irises.
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Pictured: Two not-dead girls. Dead bodies aren't dummies, nor can they support their own weight. The discoloration effect on the girl's hands occurs because the flash didn't light the subject evenly.
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Inspector Gesicht posted:
Someone's never heard of a little thing called a Dead Lift TM.
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In today's economy even dead people have to hold down jobs.
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Inspector Gesicht posted:In today's economy even dead people have to hold down jobs. "Using our patented system, you can turn your dead people problems into your dead people opportunities!"
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Inspector Gesicht posted:Pictured: Two not-dead girls.   
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Inspector Gesicht posted:Pictured: Two not-dead girls. Honestly I think these girls are alive too. The creepy eyes look drawn on, perhaps as an early 'shop to correct the blur effect.
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Apparently the stands were used to keep live people in position. So actually that makes a lot of sense!
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 This picture, the first know portrait of a woman, was taken in 1839, with a 65s exposition and without external bracing. All facial features are very neatly defined even after almost two hundred years and some poor handling that has resulted in visible tarnish. The subject was heavily powdered (with flour, in this case), to improve reflection of light on the face, which also explains weird discolorations on other photographs, like the two girls - the hands are likely darker than their faces because they are not covered in reflective powder.
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Pick posted:Apparently the stands were used to keep live people in position. So actually that makes a lot of sense! Fast acting film completely killed the Keep People In Position Stand industry.
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steinrokkan posted:
This reminds me of the story of why Frankenstein's monster is always depicted as being green, not yellow as Shelley described him; basically due to the qualities of the black and white film Karloff was painted green on set to give him a grey pallor on screen, and never was intended to be portrayed as being green until the studio created color movie posters based off of how he looked on set. Ornamental Dingbat has a new favorite as of 02:25 on Jun 3, 2017 |
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Oh cool,these were pictures I wanted to post in Pick's "why do you think women are scary" thread but could not find even with google Even though the artist of each respective picture has done more like them (more floating doll heads, more scratchy pictures of long necked people) and used to be posted in creepypasta threads all the time.
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Hemingway To Go! posted:Oh cool,these were pictures I wanted to post in Pick's "why do you think women are scary" thread but could not find even with google Yuko Tatsushima   
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Inspector Gesicht posted:Pictured: Two not-dead girls. If anyone doubts that a lot of the oddly passive expressions and either languishing or very formal gestures in many of these photos is down to a) the tastes of the time, and b) people being very determined not to screw up the photo, and adopting the most neutral possible expression (also, covering up poor teeth), have a look here: http://silversunbeam.co.uk/tintype-gallery/100-faces/ All tintypes of modern-day sitters, taken recently on a gigantic restored camera using the wet plate collodion process that was doing the fairground circuit by the mid-1850's. Compare the modern trends for duckface, or that slack-jawed 'model' expression that makes everyone look half-witted. Neither is a flattering look. Both are very popular and will doubtless mystify our descendants. Posing stands had their heyday in the daguerreotype era, when indoor portraits could take 3 or 4 minutes to expose. You could take a shot faster in bright sunlight, in well under a minute, but then you got harsh shadows and squinting, just as you do today. The best example to debunk the 'blurred = alive, sharp-focus = dead' notion is this indoor portrait of John Brown, taken 1847 (incidentally, by the first black professional photographer I've heard of, Augustus Washington). He's using a hidden posing stand and a banner to support himself. Compare his steely expression with the blur caused by unavoidable tremor in his unsupported saluting hand:  My favourite common bogus 'post-mortem' shot of a rather famous man, trying his level best to look pensive:  Actual creepy image:  Cecil Madigan, antarctic explorer, very much alive in this photo and not (as far as I know) The Thing.
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What....what part of him are we looking at, there? I'm not gonna examine that too closely 'cause I just ate, but from cursory inspection it could be either a hand frozen into a fist (minus some fingers) or his face mostly gone due to frostbite.
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Yeah, before I read he was alive I thought I vaguely recognized parts of skull, but now I'm completely lost. E: I see it now, the tip of his nose is visible in the hole in the middle, once you use that to get some context, it becomes clear. steinrokkan has a new favorite as of 22:28 on Jun 7, 2017 |
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I think that's windblown snow packed into someone's hood? Like, I'm seeing goggles in there.
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Solice Kirsk posted:
Especially if the bear decides there's not enough smokes left in the packet. From the linked article, here's another creepy image 
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Carnival of Shrews posted:Cecil Madigan, antarctic explorer, very much alive in this photo and not (as far as I know) The Thing.  This is him from another angle, which makes more sense, if you're worried efb
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joat mon posted:Since we're here at the intersection of polar climes, creepy, and badass... Are....are they performing an appendectomy on themselves?
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Solice Kirsk posted:Are....are they performing an appendectomy on themselves? Yep. If I recall correctly, he had to do it because they were in a remote region and his nurse felt under-qualified and refused.
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Solice Kirsk posted:Are....are they performing an appendectomy on themselves? Who watches the watchmen? Who takes out the only doctor's appendix? http://rarehistoricalphotos.com/leonid-rogozov-appendix-1961/
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Pigsfeet on Rye posted:Who watches the watchmen? Who takes out the only doctor's appendix? I dunno..... Coast guard?
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Inzombiac posted:Yep. If I recall correctly, he had to do it because they were in a remote region and his nurse felt under-qualified and refused. No nurse, the meteorologist and mechanic assisted, with the station director standing by in case either passed out. Leonid Rogozov posted:My poor assistants! At the last minute I looked over at them. They stood there in their surgical whites, whiter than white themselves
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