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Photography and Death
Audrey Linkman
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Description for Photography and Death
Paperback. Photography and Death reveals the beauty, meaning and significance of images once dismissed as disturbing, perverted or grotesque and charts changes in their stylistic treatment through the decades. Series: Exposures. Num Pages: 160 pages, 40 colour illustrations, 50 black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: AJC; JHBZ. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 192 x 218 x 19. Weight in Grams: 776.
The idea of photographing the dead is as old as photography itself. For the most part, early death photographs were commissioned or taken by relatives of the deceased and preserved in the home as part of the family photograph collection. Once thought inappropriate and macabre, today these photographs are considered beneficial in dealing with bereavement. Photography and Death reveals the beauty, meaning and significance of images once dismissed as disturbing, perverted or grotesque by placing them within the context of changing cultural attitudes towards death and loss. Excluding images of death through war, violence or natural disasters, Audrey Linkman concentrates ... Read more
The idea of photographing the dead is as old as photography itself. For the most part, early death photographs were commissioned or taken by relatives of the deceased and preserved in the home as part of the family photograph collection. Once thought inappropriate and macabre, today these photographs are considered beneficial in dealing with bereavement. Photography and Death reveals the beauty, meaning and significance of images once dismissed as disturbing, perverted or grotesque by placing them within the context of changing cultural attitudes towards death and loss. Excluding images of death through war, violence or natural disasters, Audrey Linkman concentrates ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Reaktion Books United Kingdom
Number of pages
160
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Series
Exposures
Condition
New
Number of Pages
160
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781861897916
SKU
V9781861897916
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Ref
99-1
About Audrey Linkman
Audrey Linkman is Visual Resources Manager at the Arts Faculty, The Open University. She specializes in the social history of nineteenth-century British photography and is the author of The Victorians: Photographic Portraits (1993).
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