{"product_id":"photographing-death-jannie-uhre-kongsgaard-9788797428306","title":"Photographing Death: Representations of Death in Memorial and Art Photography in Victorian Britain","description":"Death functioned as a marginal theme in the photographic culture of Victorian Britain, acknowledged to the extent that it could rely on an established language of death-related symbolism to communicate its message to a Victorian audience. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eWhether documented by private post mortem photography or explored in photographic art, death provided an exclusive entrée into aesthetic sublimity. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003ePhotographing Death\u003c\/i\u003e examines how both the studio photographer and the art photographer presented an idealised version of the corpse, with few reminders of the physical facts of death. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eWhether given moralising undertones or attributed symbolism that signified spiritual purity, the results were always the deliberately manipulated children of their makers: the photographers.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Jannie Uhre Kongsgaard\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 8797428302\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9788797428306\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Vanitas Publishing\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 11\/09\/2022\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 150\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.36lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.00h x 5.25w x 0.32d","brand":"Jannie Uhre Kongsgaard","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":46881181597951,"sku":"9788797428306","price":18.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_c874a63b-7efd-47a1-ae78-b562589f7dfd.jpg?v=1747970921","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/photographing-death-jannie-uhre-kongsgaard-9788797428306","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}