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Secure the Shadow: Death and Photography in America

Jay Ruby

ISBN 10: 0262681099 / 0-262-68109-9
ISBN 13: 9780262681094
Publisher: Mit Pr
Publication Date: 1999
Binding: Softcover

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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 photographs of deceased loved ones and their funerals to mitigate the finality of death. 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.

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Secure the Shadow: Death and Photography in America (ISBN: 0262681099 / 0-262-68109-9)
Ruby, Jay

ISBN 10: 0262681099
ISBN 13: 9780262681094

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Book Description: MIT Press, 1995. Trade paperback. First edition. Illustrated. Trade paperback (US). Glued binding. 232 p. Contains: Illustrations. Audience: General/trade. Fine. No dust jacket as issued. Very Near Fine, tiny nick at head of spine, blunting at tips of wraps. A clean copy of this scarce title. Bookseller Inventory # Alibris.0008232

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