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The Supplement: Victorian Headless Portraits

We all know the Victorians did some peculiar things with portrait photography in it’s infancy ( post-mortem and spirit photography, anyone?). Continuing the Victorian photographic fascination with death,  I stumbled upon another interesting  genre of the era – headless photography. Though playful and no doubt hilarious to everyone way back then, I can’t help but think it’s just a tiny bit macabre...