Prelims

Half Title

Photography and Death

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Emerald Studies in Death and Culture

Series Editors:

Ruth Penfold-Mounce, University of York, UK; Julie Rugg, University of York, UK; Jack Denham, University of York St John, UK

Editorial Advisory Board:

Jacque Lynn Foltyn, National University, USA; Lisa McCormick, University of Edinburgh, UK; Ben Poore, University of York, UK, Melissa Schrift, East Tennessee State University, USA; Kate Woodthorpe, University of Bath, UK

Emerald Studies in Death and Culture provides an outlet for cross-disciplinary exploration of aspects of mortality. The series creates a new forum for the publication of interdisciplinary research that approaches death from a cultural perspective. Published texts will be at the forefront of new ideas, new subjects, new theoretical applications and new explorations of less conventional cultural engagements with death and the dead.

Published titles

Brian Parsons, The Evolution of the British Funeral Industry in the 20th Century: From Undertaker to Funeral Director

Ruth Penfold-Mounce, Death, The Dead and Popular Culture

Matthew Spokes, Death, Memorialization and Deviant Spaces

Racheal Harris, Skin, Meaning, and Symbolism in Pet Memorials: Tattoos, Taxidermy, and Trinkets

Dina Khapaeva, Man-Eating Monsters: Anthropocentrism and Popular Culture

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Photography and Death: Framing Death throughout History

By

Racheal Harris

United Kingdom – North America – Japan – India – Malaysia – China

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First edition 2020

© 2020 Racheal Harris. Published under exclusive licence by Emerald Publishing Limited

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British Library Cataloguing in Publication Data

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ISBN: 978-1-83909-048-6 (Print)

ISBN: 978-1-83909-045-5 (Online)

ISBN: 978-1-83909-047-9 (Epub)

Dedication

For Roy and Julie, my parents.

I know that all my strange and morbid childhood fascinations were once a cause for concern. As we see now however, everything in life has its purpose…

Contents

List of Images

Acknowledgements

A resounding thank you is necessary to all the members of my personal support crew, mentioned below in no particular order.

Anne McConnell, who taught me the most important lesson about proof reading that I have ever learned! Michelle Meehan for assisting my early research into dead celebrity figures; Byron Ware for always being proud of me, regardless of the direction in which I end up traveling; and Piotr Jurek for rescuing me when that direction lands me stranded and exhausted at Kings Cross Station, with a broken suitcase. I have also been thankful every day for Elwood, who has sat by my side through endless drafts and tantrums, delivering judgment only via the occasional purr.

I am deeply indebted to my brother, Elliott Harris, who was the benefactor for my early fieldwork for this project. Without that assistance, this book would likely never have come together.

Finally, Tom, your gentle encouragement, good humor and endless patience are comforts which continue to be appreciated … I do hope you never tire of finding new ways to say,

“I told you so.”

Beyond all of this, each of you are, and have long been, a blessing in my life.

You are loved most for that.