BOOK – SECURE THE SHADOW, DEATH AND PHOTOGRAPHY IN AMERICA

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By Jay Ruby, cloth cover with foil title on spine and dust jacket, 8.5” x 10.25”, 220 pages. Very good condition from the library of photo-historian William Turner.

Secure the Shadow explores the photographic representation of death in the United States from 1840 to the 1990s, focusing on the ways in which people have taken and used photographs of deceased loved ones and their funerals to mitigate the finality of death. Sometimes thought to be a bizarre Victorian custom, photographing corpses has been and continues to be an important occurrence in American life. Ruby skillfully employs newspaper accounts, advertisements, letters, and photographs. [jet] [ph:L]

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