When Portrait Was Memory: A Matter of Lives and Deaths
From the website: Another photograph, "Fading Away" (1858) by H. P. Robinson, even caused a scandal in its era because of its deliberate confusion of these issues: it shows a young woman on her deathbed, her sister gazing down in sorrow, her mother sitting in anticipatory mourning at the foot of the divan, her father, his back turned, brooding at an open window. The image, it turns out, was entirely staged [made from several negatives].
Group Dynamics is at the New-York Historical Society.
