Death photography in Turkey in the late 1800s and early 1900s: defining an area of study

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dc.citation.epage341en_US
dc.citation.issueNumber4en_US
dc.citation.spage322en_US
dc.citation.volumeNumber11en_US
dc.contributor.authorAytemiz, P.en_US
dc.date.accessioned2016-02-08T09:34:11Z
dc.date.available2016-02-08T09:34:11Z
dc.date.issued2013en_US
dc.departmentDepartment of Architectureen_US
dc.description.abstractSince its invention, photography has been associated with the personal past. Although photographs seem to bring back memories and the past, by visually representing the inevitable passing of time, they also serve as melancholic objects of loss that remind us of our mortality. The critical literature has frequently associated photography with death. Yet when the image includes a dead body, the focus of discussion alters. Post-mortem photography was a popular visual tradition in nineteenth-century North America and Western Europe, photographs of the deceased being taken as expressions of grief. However, in the history of photography in Turkey, a Muslim-majority country, post-mortem photographs are rarely mentioned. This article delves into photography archives and collections in Turkey, which constitute an unmapped and obscure territory. It attempts to discover and discuss various death-related photographs in Turkey that can be compared to the Victorian post-mortem photography tradition. The article also 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. Different ways of expressing grief via photography after the death of a loved one and the way death is constructed in front of the camera to express mourning and longing are among the main topics of discussion. © 2013 Taylor & Francis.en_US
dc.identifier.doi10.1080/17460654.2013.831738en_US
dc.identifier.issn1746-0654
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/11693/20736
dc.language.isoEnglishen_US
dc.publisherRoutledgeen_US
dc.relation.isversionofhttp://dx.doi.org/10.1080/17460654.2013.831738en_US
dc.source.titleEarly Popular Visual Cultureen_US
dc.subjectDead bodyen_US
dc.subjectDeathen_US
dc.subjectEarly photography in Turkeyen_US
dc.subjectMourningen_US
dc.subjectPostmortem photographyen_US
dc.titleDeath photography in Turkey in the late 1800s and early 1900s: defining an area of studyen_US
dc.typeArticleen_US

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