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Secure the shadow : death and photography in America

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Uses a combination of cultural anthropology and visual analysis to explore the photographic representations of death in the United States from 1840 to the present.

It looks at the way people have taken and used photographs of deceased loved ones and their funerals to mitigate the finality of death.

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MIT Press
0262681099 / 9780262681094
Paperback
30/09/1999
English
232p. : ill.
26 cm
postgraduate /research & professional /undergraduate Learn More
Reprint. Originally published: 1995.