Post-Mortem and Mourning Daguerreotypes

See the images of post-mortem daguerreotypes included in E. G. Crichton and Margaret Morse's Mortal Coil: Mourning Becomes Electronic, an on-line exhibition "that explores uncertain thresholds between life and death through various forms of electronic and computer media," at: http://time.arts.ucla.edu/terminals/t1/ucsc/index.html

See the images of post-mortem daguerreotypes included in Jay Ruby's "Secure the Shadow: Death and Photography in America" (Round Robin Picture Gallery) at: http://catlin.clas.virginia.edu/shadows/jay/jay.html

See images of post-mortem daguerreotypes at: http://www.chariot.net.au/~rjnoye/Misc/Postmort.htm (site under construction)

See the images of post-mortem daguerreotypes included in Ben Mattison's "The Social Construction of the American Daguerreotype Portrait" at: http://users.rcn.com/ben42/daguerre/
See especially the following figures in Chapter 3, "The Mourning Portrait":

• Figure 1
• Figure 2

See the images of post-mortem daguerreotypes included in Dan Meinwald's "Memento Mori: Death and Photography in Nineteenth Century America" at: http://cmp1.ucr.edu/terminals/memento_mori

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