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  • Secure the Shadow : Death and Photography in America
  • Written by author Jay Ruby
  • Published by MIT Press, 7/23/1999
  • Secure the Shadow 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 ways in which people have taken and used photograp
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Acknowledgments
Introduction: Seeing Death 1
A Reflexive Interlude 2
A Social Approach to Photography 5
Looking at Death 7
I Heard the News Today, Oh Boy 11
1 Precursors: Mortuary and Posthumous Paintings 27
Mortuary Portraits 27
Posthumous Mourning Paintings 36
2 One Last Image: Postmortem and Funeral Photography 49
False Conceptions and Misperceptions 50
The Openness of the Nineteenth Century 52
Styles of Photographically Representing the Dead 60
Babies, Pets, and Loss 85
Family Funeral Photographs and Narrative Scenes of Grief 88
Mourning Portraits and Jewelry 104
3 Memorial Photography 113
Public Memorial Representations 113
Memorial Photographs 122
Memorial and Funeral Cards 128
Floral & Memorial Photographs 136
Illustrated Tombstones 141
4 Conclusion: A Social Analysis of Death-Related Photographs 159
Uses of Death-Related Photography 159
Distribution and Frequency of Occurrence 162
Motivation 174
Appendix: Glossary of Photographic Terms 191
Notes 193
Bibliography 199
List of Figures 205
Index 215


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