Photography and Death: Framing Death throughout History

Examining a spectrum of post-mortem images, this volume considers what death photography communicates about attitudes related to dying, mourning and the afterlife. Focusing on American examples, topics are discussed alongside contemporary representations of death, as seen in celebrity death images a...

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Main Author Harris, Racheal
Format eBook
LanguageEnglish
Published Bingley Emerald Publishing Limited 30.06.2020
Emerald
Edition1
SeriesEmerald Studies in Death and Culture
Subjects
Aspect psychologique
Histoire
History
History.0(OCoLC)fst01411628
Photographie de morts
Postmortem photography
Postmortem photography. (OCoLC)fst01073186
Psychological aspects
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Summary:Examining a spectrum of post-mortem images, this volume considers what death photography communicates about attitudes related to dying, mourning and the afterlife. Focusing on American examples, topics are discussed alongside contemporary representations of death, as seen in celebrity death images and forensic photography.
ISBN:9781839090486
1839090480
DOI:10.1108/9781839090455