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A Harvest of Death, 1863. A Harvest of Death is the title of a photograph taken by Timothy H. O'Sullivan, sometime between July 4 and 7, 1863. It shows the bodies of soldiers killed at the Battle of Gettysburg during the American Civil War, stretched out over part of the battlefield. It is the result of a singular photographic project by ...
Post-mortem photography is the practice of photographing the recently deceased. Various cultures use and have used this practice, though the best-studied area of post-mortem photography is that of Europe and America. [ 1] There can be considerable dispute as to whether individual early photographs actually show a dead person or not, often ...
The death of a noble lady and the decay of her body is a series of kusōzu paintings in watercolor, produced in Japan around the 18th century. The subject of the paintings is thought to be Ono no Komachi. [18] There are nine paintings, including a pre-death portrait, and a final painting of a memorial structure: [18] [19]
On April 18, 2014, 16 Sherpas were killed in an avalanche in the Khumbu Icefall. [ 11][ 12][ 13] On April 25, 2015, 19 people—the most ever in a single day on Everest—were killed in an avalanche at base camp after a 7.8 earthquake, which killed more than 9,000 people and injured more than 23,000 in Nepal. [ 14][ 15][ 16] During the 2023 ...
A cadaver or corpse is a dead human body. Cadavers are used by medical students, physicians and other scientists to study anatomy, identify disease sites, determine causes of death, and provide tissue to repair a defect in a living human being. Students in medical school study and dissect cadavers as a part of their education.
It was just a horrible, awful death due to negligence.” Gerald Griggs, an Atlanta attorney and president of the Georgia state conference of the NAACP, says the photos of Thompson shocked the world.
What Remains. (book) What Remains is a 2003 photography book by Sally Mann. The book is published by Bullfinch Press and contains 132 images on the subject of death, including photographs of decomposing bodies. [2] The book lent its name to the 2005 film about Sally Mann, What Remains: The Life and Work of Sally Mann, [3] in which Mann can be ...
The bodies of the fallen mountaineers are well-preserved, exhibiting little to no decay due to the intense cold temperatures. “I am probably more familiar with death and the loss of life than ...