This event is in the past.It took place on October 30, 2024 at Librairie Alain Brieux.




Before photography was common, families would capture one final portrait of their departed. Hervé Bohnert's private collection of post-mortem photographs, shown publicly for the first time, traces this forgotten practice from the mid-19th century: unsettling, moving, and strangely intimate.
Post-mortem photography
Historical exhibition
Intimate and unsettling
Medical bookshop setting
Tips
📚rare medical and scientific bookshop worth exploring
🏛️part of PhotoSaintGermain festival
📻France Culture broadcast on the subject
Les Immortels
Saint-Germain-des-Prés




Before photography was common, families would capture one final portrait of their departed. Hervé Bohnert's private collection of post-mortem photographs, shown publicly for the first time, traces this forgotten practice from the mid-19th century: unsettling, moving, and strangely intimate.
Post-mortem photography
Historical exhibition
Intimate and unsettling
Medical bookshop setting
Tips
📚rare medical and scientific bookshop worth exploring
🏛️part of PhotoSaintGermain festival
📻France Culture broadcast on the subject
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