Research Catalog

Title

Imagen y difunto : fotografía y representación de la muerte en Medellín, 1880-1930 / Jessica Alejandra Neva Oviedo.

Author

Neva Oviedo, Jessica Alejandra

Publication

Bogotá, D.C. : Editorial Universidad del Rosario, 2022.

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Details

Description

297 pages : illustrations; 21 cm.

Summary

A text that investigates the post mortem photography present in some sectors of Medellín in the late 19th and early 20h centuries. Broadly speaking, the photography of the dead belongs to a modern symbolic construction of death. To interpret its meaning in the context in which it was produced, it is essential to analyze it from a triple perspective: (1) the content of the photograph, (2) the photographer and contemporary aesthetic currents, and (3) the technical means of photography at that time and the appropriation of these images by relatives. The use of postmortem photography as a historical document is of great relevance for historians because it shows how certain funerary practices established in the past are no longer present in current societies, which may be due to the configuration of new conceptions about death.ʺ (HKB Translation) Verso Cover.

Series Statement

Opera prima

Uniform Title

Opera prima (Editorial Universidad del Rosario)

Subject

• 1800-1999
• Postmortem photography > Colombia > Medellín > History
• Medellín (Colombia) > Social life and customs > 19th century
• Medellín (Colombia) > Social life and customs > 20th century

Genre/Form

History.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (pages 285-297).

Language (note)

• In Spanish.

Contents

La mirada del fotógrafo y su influencia en el género de difuntos -- El ser querido que fallece : la ausencia corporal y su evocación espiritual -- Ante la presencia de la muerte : los deudos y la muerte del otro.

ISBN

• 9789587848793
• 9587848799

OCLC

• on1371439876
• 1371439876
• SCSB-14449352

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library