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Post-mortem photography is the practice of photographing the recently deceased. Various cultures use and have used this practice, though the best-studied area of post-mortem photography is that of Europe and America. [1] .
15 mar 2020 · Morbid curiosities or touching tributes to the recently deceased? Read on to discover how the practice of photographing the dead came to be, and what these images reflect about their contemporary society’s attitudes towards death.
2 kwi 2020 · What are the different sorts of images of death mentioned in this case, and what differentiates each type? Under what conditions, if any, is it acceptable to photograph the dead for news purposes? What responsibility do journalists and news organizations have to the deceased? How does one respect an individual who no longer is alive?
14 sie 2018 · If we are rarely allowed to see photographs of dead American soldiers in the news, then what does it mean that we can routinely view, in every major media outlet, images and videos of black...
1 lis 2022 · Here, Omega Mwaikambo photographed and posted online pictures of a body of a victim of the Grenfell fire on Facebook. He said he knew it was ‘morally wrong’, but was ‘traumatised’, and wanted to see if anyone knew the deceased person.
Television reporters’ announcements insistently updated the death toll while ticker tape at the bottom of the screen, known as the “crawl” in television argot, dutifully tracked the rising number of dead. We may recall “gruesome” news images, but they were actually not there.
13 mar 2019 · Photographing death has been in the headlines for the wrong reasons, mostly due to the increasingly problematic intersection with social media.
