Explore The "Sleeping Beauty"

The core context of the article is on "post-mortem portrait of early photographic history.To research this typical type of photography in nearly a hundred years,for its origin,development summit,decline and disgust. Firstly the article analyze the background of the typical photos from society, religion and culture. Secondly, through iconography the issue would like to explore the relationship between post-mortem photography and the history of western art,furthermore the ideological trend what impact on the aesthetic of the photos.Lastly, it talks about several aspects for the "birth and disgust" of the photography,like social customs and technology revolution.The article holds that why the typical photography is decline is directly for the social customs.What’s more,the style of the photos was changing with technology revolution and the visual effect was evolving. Follows the style aspect of the large number of religious Altarpiece art history of the "Pieta" "Madonna" and other related topics. Along with social and technology progress, eventually people neither immersed in the gloomy theme of death is nor in need of much more professional photographers for their private family life photographs, the typical photos,post-mortem photography ultimately to decline.