Graduation Year
2018
Document Type
Open Access Senior Thesis
Degree Name
Bachelor of Arts
Department
Media Studies
Reader 1
T. Kim-Trang Tran
Reader 2
Ruti Talmor
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© 2017 Eva S. Weiner
Abstract
This paper explores how photographs have affected mourning processes in the past and how photo-technology may be able to change the way in which we mourn in the future. It includes an overview of the history of post-mortem photography and discusses the perspectives of well-known media theorists such as Roland Barthes and Susan Sontag. It engages with psychologists by including their perspectives on the effect that photographs have on the mourning process. A project was created to investigate how photo-technology can affect the bereaved. The project places photographs of a mother into pictures of her children taken after she had passed away. These photographs were later shown to her sons in order to explore how this impacts their memories and mourning processes.
Recommended Citation
Weiner, Eva, "Photography and Mourning: Excavating Memories of My Great-Grandmother" (2018). Scripps Senior Theses. 1096.
https://scholarship.claremont.edu/scripps_theses/1096
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Family, Life Course, and Society Commons, Other Film and Media Studies Commons, Other History of Art, Architecture, and Archaeology Commons, Photography Commons
