Photography and death : framing death throughout history

• Main Author: Harris, Racheal (Author)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Bingley, U.K. : Emerald Publishing Limited, 2020.
• Series: Emerald studies in death and culture.
• Subjects: Postmortem photography > Psychological aspects.; Death > Psychological aspects.; elektronické knihy; electronic books
• ISBN: 9781839090479; 9781839090455
• DOI: 10.1108/9781839090455
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (196 pages) : illustrations ; cm.

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...