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Portrait of a Dead Boy

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A throwback to pictorialism style and allegorical photos. Back in the day people before kodak made mass-market photography possible people usually only took pictures of their loved ones if they were going off to war or if they had died. Funny how we use photography now to capture life and back then they used it as a way of capturing the dead. It was more so the family would have the "last image" of their loved one since people often died young back then.

Long story short, it was creepy shit by today's standards. Wasn't really planning this but Izzy is pretty creepy in himself, what with his orcale eyes n shiz... *shurg*


Wish I could say I took this with my film camera but nah lawl.
Image size
461x681px 210.91 KB
Make
Canon
Model
Canon EOS 40D
Shutter Speed
1/64 second
Aperture
F/3.5
Focal Length
50 mm
ISO Speed
400
Date Taken
May 17, 2010, 10:15:12 PM
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RoosterBlue's avatar
This is so haunting. I'm a huge fan of those death portraits... I think they're called daguerreotype or something. I love looking at them! X3 So this just makes me want to roll around with gleeeeeeee~!