Abstract

HENAO ALBARRACIN, Ana María. Uses and social meanings of post-mortem photography in Colombia. univ.humanist. [online]. 2013, n.75, pp.329-355. ISSN 0120-4807.

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.

Keywords : Body; Social representation; Photography; Death; Representation of death; Human figure in art; Social representations; Photography; Death; Photographic-artistc, Colombia.

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