People taking photographs at funerals

[Bikini Mod]

no shit? Didnt know that. Well, I just hate sifting thru my grandparents attic at Christmas time and finding that shit.

Seriously, if you look at older American pics... like depression and a few decades after - certainly before - NO ONE IS SMILING. From the time that I recall (I was born in 67) you were always told, "SAY CHEESE.... SMILE" before a photograph was snapped... but that is a result of how common picture taking had become.

Wasn't always that way. In the past, if you got your photograph taken it was because

A - you were important.

B - your family had enough money to spend at that time. This is AFTER everyone had housing/food and other necessities. Photographs were an EXTREME luxury for MOST.

Also makeup became increasingly popular with the invention of camera/moving pictures.

 

[H_T_]

Seriously, if you look at older American pics... like depression and a few decades after - certainly before - NO ONE IS SMILING. From the time that I recall (I was born in 67) you were always told, "SAY CHEESE.... SMILE" before a photograph was snapped... but that is a result of how common picture taking had become.

Wasn't always that way. In the past, if you got your photograph taken it was because

A - you were important.

B - your family had enough money to spend at that time. This is AFTER everyone had housing/food and other necessities. Photographs were an EXTREME luxury for MOST.

Also makeup became increasingly popular with the invention of camera/moving pictures.

ironic. my mum showed my gf & i a pic of gramma & grampa last night. it was 73 years old. no smiles. she was 17 years old....

 

[Bikini Mod]

ironic. my mum showed my gf & i a pic of gramma & grampa last night. it was 73 years old. no smiles. she was 17 years old....

Interestingly enough I have always favored more serious pics of myself. I dunno why... maybe somewhere deep down this information made THAT MUCH of an impression on me... I dunno.

 

[Dial_tone]

Ain't that some shit? I don't mean big lavish Anne Nicole style funerals of celebrities and shit. But the small 20 member funerals and shit. Some ninny running around with a camera taking pictures to preserve Aunt Flo in all her distraught splendor.

Ever been to one where there was a dum dum in attendance like this?

I took photographs at my grandmother's funeral...because my mother asked me to. She also requested two copies of each.

 

[Bikini Mod]

I took photographs at my grandmother's funeral...because my mother asked me to. She also requested two copies of each.

That's because your family is wierd.

 

[musclemom]

See now, as a kid I remember seeing old photos of the family surrounding my paternal grandfather's body. (This was back in the day when that was allowed - now the body is kept and viewed in a building in the cemetary. The body is buried withn 3 days time, sooner, I believe in the summer.) It was odd to me, an American child to see that. I remember seeing the thick black cloth that was used to tie his jaw up.... I wish that I could still do that type of thing. I mean, have my beloved relation in my home until we burried him/her and not have them lying alone in some cold, mercenary funeral home.

Honestly, I don't see much harm in it.

But then again... I AM a fruitloop.

My mother's is 1st generation Polish and it is VERY normal in that culture to take a PORTRAIT of the deceased in the casket and have that picture prominently displayed in the home.

I couldn't get down with that. I wouldn't mind having the deceased laid out in the home, but having a picture on the mantle *shivers* I'd rather remember them as they were alive.

Now I personally think it comes from the fact that photos used to be very expensive, and you used to have to sit still really long for one. So if you'd never splurged on (or wanted to sit through) having a photo taken of yourself in life the only picture your family WOULD have of you was when you were dead.

 

[Bikini Mod]

My mother's is 1st generation Polish and it is VERY normal in that culture to take a PORTRAIT of the deceased in the casket and have that picture prominently displayed in the home.

I couldn't get down with that. I wouldn't mind having the deceased laid out in the home, but having a picture on the mantle *shivers* I'd rather remember them as they were alive.

Now I personally think it comes from the fact that photos used to be very expensive, and you used to have to sit still really long for one. So if you'd never splurged on (or wanted to sit through) having a photo taken of yourself in life the only picture your family WOULD have of you was when you were dead.

Makes sense. I dunno too many dead peeps that flinch and fucked up the shot... Although I may shoot for that goal!

 

[SoKlueles]

on a sidenote, my ex's mother took a picture of her baby that died
she had no other pictures of her

 

[Turd Ferguson]

Seen a lot of gang land shots of teenage gangsta's in the coffin. I think that is classless. But you not exactly in a right frame of mind at those times I guess

 

[AAP]

I took photographs at my grandmother's funeral...because my mother asked me to. She also requested two copies of each.

did you get close up photos of people crying and snot coming out their noses?