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Death of an Infant

其他書名	A Poem by Lydia Howard Huntely Sigourney
出版	Lock & Key Press, 2010
URL	http://books.google.com.hk/books?id=Wq23oAEACAAJ&hl=&source=gbs_api

註釋"Post-mortem photography is the practice of photographing the recently deceased. This book, inspired by the poem Death of an Infant by Lydia Huntley Sigourney, resembles a Victorian folding photo frame complete with a lock of hair and accordion fold collage. These photographs served less as a reminder of mortality than as a keepsake to remember the deceased. Post-mortem photography was especially common with infants and young children; Victorian era childhood mortality rates were extremely high, and a post-mortem photograph might be the only image of the child the family ever had. My goal was to make this book resemble a Victorian folding photo frame to the best of my ability, something that truly became quite the challenge. The cover is meant to look like pressed tin, as well as the inside where the encased lock of hair is framed by "gold pressed tin" and velvet lining."--Artist's web page