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Secure the shadow : death and photography in America / Jay Ruby.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, [1995]Copyright date: ©1995Description: x, 220 pages : illustrations ; 27 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 0262181649
  • 9780262181648
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 779.20973
LOC classification:
  • TR681.D43 R83 1995
Contents:
Acknowledgments -- Introduction: Seeing Death -- A Reflexive Interlude -- A Social Approach to Photography -- Looking at Death -- I Heard the News Today, Oh Boy -- 1. Precursors: Mortuary and Posthumous Paintings -- Mortuary Portraits -- Posthumous Mourning Paintings -- 2. One Last Image: Postmortem and Funeral Photography -- False Conceptions and Misperceptions -- The Openness of the Nineteenth Century -- Styles of Photographically Representing the Dead -- Babies, Pets, and Loss -- Family Funeral Photographs and Narrative Scenes of Grief -- Mourning Portraits and Jewelry -- 3. Memorial Photography -- Public Memorial Representations -- Memorial Photographs -- Memorial and Funeral Cards -- Floral & Memorial Photographs -- Illustrated Tombstones -- 4. Conclusion: A Social Analysis of Death-Related Photographs -- Uses of Death-Related Photography -- Distribution and Frequency of Occurrence -- Motivation -- Appendix: Glossary of Photographic Terms -- Notes -- Bibliography -- List of Figures -- Index.
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Book City Campus City Campus Main Collection 779.20973 RUB (Browse shelf(Opens below)) 1 Available A175915B

Includes bibliographical references (pages 199-203) and index.

Acknowledgments -- Introduction: Seeing Death -- A Reflexive Interlude -- A Social Approach to Photography -- Looking at Death -- I Heard the News Today, Oh Boy -- 1. Precursors: Mortuary and Posthumous Paintings -- Mortuary Portraits -- Posthumous Mourning Paintings -- 2. One Last Image: Postmortem and Funeral Photography -- False Conceptions and Misperceptions -- The Openness of the Nineteenth Century -- Styles of Photographically Representing the Dead -- Babies, Pets, and Loss -- Family Funeral Photographs and Narrative Scenes of Grief -- Mourning Portraits and Jewelry -- 3. Memorial Photography -- Public Memorial Representations -- Memorial Photographs -- Memorial and Funeral Cards -- Floral & Memorial Photographs -- Illustrated Tombstones -- 4. Conclusion: A Social Analysis of Death-Related Photographs -- Uses of Death-Related Photography -- Distribution and Frequency of Occurrence -- Motivation -- Appendix: Glossary of Photographic Terms -- Notes -- Bibliography -- List of Figures -- Index.

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