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Seeing death : portraiture in contemporary postmortem photography

This thesis focuses on the aesthetics of the photographic representation of the actual dead body in Elizabeth Heyert's The Travelers (2004), Pieter Hugo's The Bereaved (2005) and Walter Schels and Beate Lakotta's Life Before Death: Portraits of the Dying (2004). The use of portraiture in each of the...

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Main Author: Higgins, Josephine
Other Authors: Richards, Colin
Format: Thesis
Language:English
Published: Michaelis School of Fine Art 2015
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