Now I Lay Me Down to Sleep

Posted 2/3/07

"All photographs are memento mori," Susan Sontag wrote in "On Photography," her groundbreaking collection of essays published in 1977. In the 19th century, taking photographic portraits of dead loved ones — then called memento mori — was a …

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