Photographer's stands were regularly used to help living, breathing subjects hold still for the longer time needed to complete the exposure period photography required.
In a previous life as an EMT, I had the sad experience on several occasions of helping to care for deceased individuals. You cannot pose a deceased person easily. The bodies are either very stiff, making it impossible to move them into position, or very limp, making it impossible to put them in a stable upright position. The relatively flimsy photographers' stands could never support the weight of a deceased person of any size - infant, child, adult - in an upright position. These bodies are also heavy; they're not lightweight like a doll or mannequin. Take 25 or 40 pounds of potatoes, put it in a pillowcase or loose bag, try to pose it in an upright position, and have it stay in that position. Now image it with someone much heavier. There's a reason why most identified post mortem photographs show the individual in a reclining position. Regards, Carolann -----Original Message----- From: h-costume-boun...@indra.com [mailto:h-costume-boun...@indra.com] On Behalf Of Albert Watts Sent: Thursday, January 29, 2015 3:59 PM To: Historical Costume Subject: Re: [h-cost] New Topic: Is this a Postmortem Photo If you zoom in on the foot area of the boy you can see a stand going between his legs his feet are resting on the edges of the bottom circle.directly above his head is a black cross bar..I think it pm photo also _______________________________________________ h-costume mailing list h-costume@mail.indra.com http://mail.indra.com/mailman/listinfo/h-costume
