Parental Grief and Photographic Remembrance
A Historical Account of Undying Love
Seiten
2020
Emerald Publishing Limited (Verlag)
978-1-78769-326-5 (ISBN)
Emerald Publishing Limited (Verlag)
978-1-78769-326-5 (ISBN)
Felicity Hamer explores how creative, and sometimes contested, incorporations of photography within online spaces demonstrate a revival and renegotiation of historic practices propelled by a desire to commemorate the death of a child.
Winner of the 2020 Stand-Out Graduate Research Award
Winner of the August 2020 Fonds de recherche du Québec – Société et culture (FRQSC) Prix Relève étoile Paul-Gérin-Lajoie
Photographic portraits of those who have passed have the potential to become valuable sites of remembrance. Across North America and Western Europe, parents are increasingly unfamiliar with death; lacking the rituals and tools that have historically eased the bereavement process. This book shines a light on how semi-private social media groups enable the bereaved parents of today to navigate their grief in the modern world. The author explores how creative, and sometimes contested, incorporations of photography within these online spaces demonstrate a revival and renegotiation of historic practices. By shining a light on recurrent tendencies and their evolution within new media this book offers an opportunity to observe the complex relationships grief can prompt some individuals to form with the portraits of absent loved ones.
As social networking sites continue to enable the reinsertion of death within the social realm, the author looks ahead: might we begin to see a revival and increased openness towards end-of-life, post-mortem and funerary photography? As bereavement increasingly becomes something communicated in an online context, what new types of embellishments to the photographic portrait might we encounter?
Winner of the 2020 Stand-Out Graduate Research Award
Winner of the August 2020 Fonds de recherche du Québec – Société et culture (FRQSC) Prix Relève étoile Paul-Gérin-Lajoie
Photographic portraits of those who have passed have the potential to become valuable sites of remembrance. Across North America and Western Europe, parents are increasingly unfamiliar with death; lacking the rituals and tools that have historically eased the bereavement process. This book shines a light on how semi-private social media groups enable the bereaved parents of today to navigate their grief in the modern world. The author explores how creative, and sometimes contested, incorporations of photography within these online spaces demonstrate a revival and renegotiation of historic practices. By shining a light on recurrent tendencies and their evolution within new media this book offers an opportunity to observe the complex relationships grief can prompt some individuals to form with the portraits of absent loved ones.
As social networking sites continue to enable the reinsertion of death within the social realm, the author looks ahead: might we begin to see a revival and increased openness towards end-of-life, post-mortem and funerary photography? As bereavement increasingly becomes something communicated in an online context, what new types of embellishments to the photographic portrait might we encounter?
Felicity Hamer is a PhD candidate in the Communication Studies Program at Concordia University in Montreal. Her research focuses on memory and imagination through photography; bereavement and photography; emotional engagement with photographs; paranormal, supernatural, magical and miraculous imagery; and intersections of religion and photography.
Introduction. Something to Remember Them By
Chapter 1. In Their Image
Chapter 2. Photographic Reunion
Chapter 3. Embellishing Trace
Conclusion. In Loving Memories
| Erscheinungsdatum | 19.02.2020 |
|---|---|
| Reihe/Serie | Sharing Death Online |
| Verlagsort | Bingley |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 129 x 198 mm |
| Gewicht | 160 g |
| Themenwelt | Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Fotokunst |
| Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Freizeit / Hobby ► Fotografieren / Filmen | |
| Sozialwissenschaften ► Kommunikation / Medien ► Medienwissenschaft | |
| Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Mikrosoziologie | |
| ISBN-10 | 1-78769-326-0 / 1787693260 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-1-78769-326-5 / 9781787693265 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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