Death Becomes This Brooklyn Freelancer

Her book on the fate of various famous stiffs, Rest in Pieces, was voted by Amazon to be one of last year’s best reads. She is a member of something called The Order of Good Death, as well as a founding member of Death Salon. (That group’s next NYC event is slated for sometime in 2015, at the Morbid Anatomy Museum.)

In other words, it’s no surprise that Lovejoy found a way to lead off her Smithsonian piece about William Mortensen with a colorful corpse anecdote that ropes in a couple of other famous photographers.