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Sleeping Beauty: Memorial Photography in America
€134.00
Postmortem photography made 1840-1930.
This volume presents a chronological arrangement of postmortem photography 1840-1930; no other collection of this material has been made available despite recent interest in the American way of death. What emerges is a vivid visual history of the changes in American customs. We can see the change in death concepts and funerary practices, from the image of death as a stark Puritan journey for a sinner to the late Victorian beautification of death and its interpretation as a restful sleep for a redeemed soul.
Bibliographic Details
| Author | Stanley B. Burns, Elizabeth A. Burns |
|---|---|
| Publisher | Twelvetrees Press |
| Place of publication | Altadena, California |
| Year | 1990 |
| Edition | First edition |
| Binding | Hardcover |
| ISBN | 942642325 |
| Collation | 140 pp. |
| Language | English |
| Dimensions | 31 x 24 |
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