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- Title
Usos y significados sociales de la fotografía post-mortem en Colombia.
- Authors
Henao Albarracín, Ana María
- Abstract
This research is intended to understand the social uses and meanings of post-mortem or funeral photography between the late nineteenth and mid-twentieth century in Colombia. The article seeks to contribute to the analysis of the relationship between photography and society, and more particularly, between photography and a social representation of death, identifying the conventions and rules of this photographic practice that determine aesthetic behaviors around death.
- Subjects
COLOMBIA; POSTMORTEM photography; PHOTOGRAPHY &; society; SOCIAL aspects of death; AESTHETICS; MANNERS &; customs
- Publication
Universitas Humanística, 2013, Vol 75, Issue 75, p329
- ISSN
0120-4807
- Publication type
Article