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100 1 _aHarris, Racheal,
_eauthor.
245 1 0 _aPhotography and death :
_bframing death throughout history /
_cauthored by Racheal Harris (Deakin University, Australia).
264 1 _bEmerald Publishing Limited,
300 _a1 online resource (196 pages) :
_billustrations ;
_ccm.
490 1 _aEmerald studies in death and culture
500 _aIncludes index.
504 _aIncludes bibliographical references.
505 0 _aIntro -- 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 _a2.1. 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 _a4.1. 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
520 _aExamining 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.
588 0 _aPrint version record.
650 0 _aPostmortem photography
_xPsychological aspects.
650 0 _aDeath
_xPsychological aspects.
650 7 _aPhotography, Subjects & Themes
_xGeneral.
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650 7 _aSpecial kinds of photography.
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776 _z9781839090462
830 0 _aEmerald studies in death and culture.
856 4 0 _uhttps://doi.org/10.1108/9781839090455
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