Beyond the dark veil : post-mortem & mourning photography from the Thanatos Archive
2015. San Francisco, CA : Grand Central Press & Last Gasp. Fine copy in the original gilt-blocked cloth. Remains particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and strong. Item #407616
ISBN: 9780867197969
Physical description; 199 pp.: illustrations (some color) ; 23 cm. Contents; Remembering Death / Marion Peck -- Memory Keepers: Photography as a Form of Remembrance / Jaqueline Ann Bunge Barger and Jack Mord -- The Soul & Its Substitutes / Joe Smoke -- Death in the Nineteenth Century: Tradition, Technology, & the Conflicts of the Modern / Adam Arenson I -- Mourning as Memory: A Brief Primer on Victorian Mourning Customs / Bess Lovejoy -- Stilled Lives / Joanna Roche -- Glossary of Terms / Alex Jackson -- Biographies of Authors. Subjects; Postmortem photography ; Exhibitions. Death ; Pictorial works 19th century. Portrait photography. Mourning customs.
Price: €125.00