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Sleeping Beauty: Memorial Photography in America

€ 132,00
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
Language Engels
Dimensions 31 x 24
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