A Student’s Dream
How do you keep your subjects completely still during a photo? Well, it helps if they’re all dead. Medical students who embraced early photography found it funny to pose their cadavers for pictures, which is something that would be entirely inappropriate now, but at the time, didn’t seem at all unusual.
A very common type of posed photo to take was a Student’s Dream, in which medical students were being dissected by their cadavers, rather than the other way around.