Maud: The Illustrated Diary of a Victorian WomanFraser, Flora
9780262181648
Secure the Shadow: Death and Photography in America
Jay Ruby
ISBN 10: 0262181649 / 0-262-18164-9
ISBN 13: 9780262181648
Publisher: Mit Pr
Publication Date: 1995
Binding: Hardcover
ISBN 13: 9780262181648
Publisher: Mit Pr
Publication Date: 1995
Binding: Hardcover
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"[A] facinating history of a completely overlooked aspect of photography...." -- Los Angeles Times Book Review Death and the way society comes to terms with it have become a major area of scholarly and popular interest, as evidenced in the work of such well-known figures as Philippe Ariıs and Elisabeth Kıbler Ross. Photographs and other forms of pictorial imagery play an important role in these investigations. Secure the Shadow is an original contribution that lies at the intersection of cultural anthropology and visual analysis, a field that Jay Ruby's previous writings have helped to define. It explores the photographic representation of death in the United States from 1840 to the present, focusing on the ways in which people have taken and used photographs of deceased loved ones and their funerals to mitigate the finality of death. Sometimes thought to be a bizarre Victorian custom, photographing corpses has been and continues to be an important, if not recognized, occurrence in American life. It is a photographic activity, like the erotica produced in middle-class homes by married couples, that many privately practice but seldom circulate outside the trusted circle of close friends and relatives. Along with tombstones, funeral cards, and other images of death, these photographs represent one way in which Americans have attempted to secure their shadows. Ruby employs newspaper accounts, advertisements, letters, photographers' account books, interviews, and other material to determine why and how photography and death became intertwined in the nineteenth century. He traces this century's struggle between America's public denial of death and a deeply felt private need to use pictures of those we love to mourn their loss. Americans take and use photographs of dead relatives and friends in spite of and not because of society's expectation about the propriety of these means. Ruby compares photographs and other pictorial media of death, founding his interpretations on the discovery of patterns in the appearance of the images and a reconstruction of the conditions of their production and utilization. A selection of Jay Ruby's photographs from Secure the Shadow are available at the FiXing Shadows site.
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