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Lauren Collins writes about the recent conversation emerging in the French press about the representation of mothers in family photographs, and how the “hidden mother” has been a phenomenon through history, with mothers from the Victorian era, acting as props for their children, to now.

Wearing widow's weeds and holding photograph of their loved ones, photos show Victorians in mourning as part of a trend that saw them pictured in the throes of their grief.

Great daguerreotype of little girl with hidden mother

The community on Russian social media site VI, called 'Selfie with the Deceased', pledge to pay between 1,000 and 5,000 roubles (£10-£50) for the best selfie with a corpse.

The Victorian mums who disguised themselves as chairs, couches and curtains – to hold their children still for photographs