Sleeping Beauty II: Grief, Bereavement, and the Family in Memorial Photography - American and European Traditions.
Stanley B. Burns, M.D. and Elizabeth A. Burns
ISBN: 9780961295837 (ISBN not in book)
Post-mortem memorial photography from America and Europe, from the earliest photographs to the 1980s.
Read July 14, 2016
Morbid, creepy, unsettling, and really really interesting. And sad. A record of people desperately grasping (and paying a vast quantity of money) for a final memento of a loved one who is irrevocably and perhaps unexpectedly and quickly gone from them forever. I'm curious to see the first book.
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