An Image of John Keats

In response to the post below, marking John Keats' death on this date in 1821, here is a remarkable photograph of Keats' life mask by artist Benjamin Haydon.

This photograph, and others like it, can be found in Joanna Kane's book, The Somnambulists: Photographic Portraits From Before Photography (Dewi Lewis Publishing, 2008). Using traditional and digital techniques, Kane photographed life and death masks from the late 18th/early 19th centuries, and created portraits like this one that almost seem ready to speak.

Comments

[DL]

Haunting. Thank you, LO.

[Joelle Biele]

Thanks so much for this--