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 (Author)
Format Electronic eBook
LanguageEnglish
Published Bingley, U.K. : Emerald Publishing Limited, 2020.
SeriesEmerald studies in death and culture.
Subjects
Online AccessFull text
ISBN9781839090479
9781839090455
DOI10.1108/9781839090455
Physical Description1 online resource (196 pages) : illustrations ; cm.

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505 0 |a Intro -- Half Title Page -- Series Page -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication Page -- Contents -- List of Images -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction-Death and Post-mortem Photography in History -- Chapter 1-Romance: Post-mortem Photography -- 1.1 Alternatives to Pre- and Post-mortem Portraiture -- 1.2 The Good Death -- 1.3 Composition of the Death and Near-death Image -- 1.4 The Imitation of Life -- 1.5 Post-mortem Coffin Images -- 1.6. Counter Narratives -- 1.7. Other Uses for Death Photography -- 1.8. Conclusion -- Chapter 2-Anonymity: War Photography 
505 8 |a 2.1. Photojournalism and Death -- 2.2. Photographing the Dead: The Battlefield -- 2.3. Interacting with the Dead: Mass Production of Images -- 2.4. Later War Images -- 2.5. World War I -- 2.6. World War II -- 2.7. Embalming the Dead: Preservation of Soldiers -- 2.8. Conclusion -- Chapter 3-Continuance: Spirit Photography -- 3.1. Spirit Images and Spiritualism -- 3.2. The Relationship between War and Spiritualism -- 3.3. Composition of the Spirit Image -- 3.4. William Mumler -- 3.5. Séance Photographs -- 3.6. Conclusion -- Pictorial Inserts -- Chapter 4-Violence: The Lynching Photograph 
505 8 |a 4.1. OWNERSHIP OF THE BODY AND THE LYNCHING IMAGE -- 4.2. Lynching and Race -- 4.3. Lynching and Segregation -- 4.4. Lynching Images -- 4.5. History and Contemporary Guilt -- 4.6. Historical Evidence and the Death Narrative -- 4.7. The Audience Within -- 4.8. The Audience Without -- 4.9. Conclusion -- Chapter 5-Ownership: Celebrity Death -- 5.1. Ownership of the Celebrity Body -- 5.2. Body Removal -- 5.3. Scene of the Crime -- 5.4. Suicide and Autopsy Photographs -- 5.5. Kurt Cobain -- 5.6. Tupac -- 5.7. THE IMAGE AS KEEPSAKE -- 5.8. Celebrity Grave Sites -- 5.9. Conclusion 
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