BEGIN:VCALENDAR PRODID:NingEventWidget-v1 VERSION:2.0 METHOD:PUBLISH BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:Europe/London X-LIC-LOCATION:Europe/London BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:+0000 TZOFFSETTO:+0100 TZNAME:BST DTSTART:19700329T010000 RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;BYMONTH=3;BYDAY=-1SU END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:+0100 TZOFFSETTO:+0000 TZNAME:GMT DTSTART:19701025T020000 RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;BYMONTH=10;BYDAY=-1SU END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT UID:2680769:Event:13046 DTSTAMP:20190915T194145Z SUMMARY:Post-Mortem Photography DESCRIPTION:In partnership with the Burns Archive, publishers of the a ward-winning photo book \"Sleeping Beauty,\" the Merchant's House Muse um will present an in situ exhibition of 19th-century post-mortem phot ographs and modern art inspired by the iconography of these historic i mages.\n\nOpen September 9 through November 29, the exhibition will in clude historic prints and daguerreotypes from the Burns Archive collec tion that have never been shown in New York City. Featured modern arti sts include Joel-Peter Witkin (courtesy of Bruce Silverstein Gallery) and Hal Hirshorn. Visitors will be encouraged to stage their own \"pos t-mortem\" photographs in a reproduction coffin, highlighting our chan ging relationship to personal images in the age of digital photography .\n\nWith the advent of photography in the 1840s, Americans began to m emorialize their loved ones in post-mortem photographs. Though more ac cessible than a painted portrait, 19th century photography was still e xpensive and required specialized skills and equipment, so personal im ages remained relatively rare. It was not unusual for the only photogr aph ever taken of someone to be after death.\n\nFor more information v isit y DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20100909T000000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20101129T235900 CATEGORIES:exhibition LOCATION:Merchant's House Museum WEBSITE: URL: CONTACT:New York: 212-777-1089 ORGANIZER:Merchant's House Museum ATTACH;FMTTYPE="image/jpeg": Ffj9FX7vLcOQlSxls8E7406GJkjtjywlZgtKTC7VEA8nEt5Jk0JvqUQjy9jZQHtX9MoAmI l-qOzfzoavPdj/224.jpg ATTENDEE;ROLE=REQ-PARTICIPANT;PARTSTAT=ACCEPTED;RSVP=TRUE;CN="Michael Wong": END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR