Legacy Matters

Life and Death Masks

I found the Laurence Hutton Collection of Life and Death Masks at Princeton AMAZING.

Masks captured faces long before photographs. I felt a real contact with people dead hundreds of years as I gazed at their faces.

Queen Elizabeth I

Benjamin Franklin's life mask

Thomas Paine death mask

Johann Wolfgang Goethe - life mask

James Dean, life mask. Doesn't he look a bit like Russell Crowe?

via Hanan Levin