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Mourning Imagery - Photography graphic
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Mourning Imagery - Photography graphic
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2017
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10A Mourning Imagery - Photography.pdf
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Mourning Photography
Funeral customs that might strike us as odd today were common a hundred yearsago. The advent of photography allowed the creation of keepsakes of lost loved ones. Photos capturing the recently deceased alongside living siblings or parents provided opportunity for one last family portrait. Attempts to create the illusion of sleep or rest in lieu of death blunted the sharpness of grief. Gradually, as funeral rites moved out of the home, photography shifted focus to processions, caskets, and oral arrangements. These images are from the Compton Family Photography Studio which served Brigham City, Utah, from 1884 to 1994.
For Death must be somewhere in a society; if it is no longer (or less intensely) in religion, it must be elsewhere; perhaps in this image which produces Death while trying to preserve life.
-Roland Barthes, Camera Lucida pg. 92
Funeral customs that might strike us as odd today were common a hundred yearsago. The advent of photography allowed the creation of keepsakes of lost loved ones. Photos capturing the recently deceased alongside living siblings or parents provided opportunity for one last family portrait. Attempts to create the illusion of sleep or rest in lieu of death blunted the sharpness of grief. Gradually, as funeral rites moved out of the home, photography shifted focus to processions, caskets, and oral arrangements. These images are from the Compton Family Photography Studio which served Brigham City, Utah, from 1884 to 1994.
For Death must be somewhere in a society; if it is no longer (or less intensely) in religion, it must be elsewhere; perhaps in this image which produces Death while trying to preserve life.
-Roland Barthes, Camera Lucida pg. 92
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