As part of my daily blog rounds, I stopped by here and saw this.
If for any reason you've recently said to yourself, "Ya know, I haven't had myself a good cry in awhile." And you're looking for something to put you in that nice, cathartic place for awhile, then there you go.
I couldn't really look at them. But took note of the beauty and sadness of these before and afters. The interviews put them over the top.
They remind me of the practice of creating death masks. While death masks were a mark of wealth or celebrity, these portraits are quite different. The practice of death masks was in large part to record identity. These photos- on the other hand- remind me that there is a marked difference of identity and features before and after death.
Wow, I'm such a downer today.
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