Representing absence and the absent one : remembering and longing through mourning photography
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Date
2013Publisher
Bilkent University
Language
English
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Abstract
Exploring different practices of photographing / representing the dead, this
dissertation, deals with the question how the deceased loved ones are remembered
and longed for through photography in the context of family. Approaching mourning
as a long-term experience in the life of mourners, the primary objective of this
dissertation is to analyze the alterations of the absence/presence of the mourned one
in mourning photography, using photographs found from archives and antique
markets as primary source material. In the light of the critical literature on
photography, studies of material culture and memory in relation to photography and
classical and contemporary mourning studies, this dissertation aims to expand the
parameters of the discussion on the relationship between different types of
photography and mourning, remembering, longing for, and bidding farewell to the
dead and to refine a new area of study concerning death photography in Turkey