Actually, I was not reading into it. I was not stating that the children were
being yelled at. I was simply giving several possible alternative reasons for
their facial expressions that did not include being upset that someone was
dead. My point being that you can't assume that the child in the photo is dead
because of the facial expressions of the other children. And had the PM or not
question not been asked, I doubt it would have been assumed that they were
mourning simply based on facial expression.
This seems to happen every time the PM or not is asked about a photo. Thanatos
archive posts these quite often. And every time there are several people who
suddenly see things in the photo that they would not have seen if the question
was not asked. For example, the baby has to be dead because the mother looks so
sad and she is wearing black. The mother could have been wearing any color that
photographed as dark. The facial expression was blank which was not that
uncommon for that type of photograph (these are the ones you have to sit very
still for). And even when specifics are given as to why the outfit would
absolutely not be mourning (trims, fabrics, styles, etc), people only see death
because that is what they are looking for.
Personally, I like to look at anatomy. We can only guess at emotion, but we
scientifically know what happens to a body after death.
Teena
From: Jacqueline Johnson <jacqueline.m.john...@gmail.com>
To: Historical Costume <h-cost...@indra.com>
Sent: Thursday, January 15, 2015 2:19 PM
Subject: Re: [h-cost] New Topic: Is this a Postmortem Photo
Of course a lot is being read into it. That's why we have this list is it
not? After all, you just read a lot into yourself, the idea of the kids
being yelled at...you're right, we can't "know". But we can conjecture.
About history.
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