Visible care : Nan Goldin and Andres Serrano's post-mortem photography

This thesis investigates artistic post-mortem photography in the context of shifting social relationship with death in the 1980s and 1990s. Analyzing Nan Goldin’s Cookie in Her Casket and Andres Serrano’s The Morgue, I argue that artists engaging in postmortem photography demonstrate care for the de...

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Main Author: Summersgill, Lauren Jane
Published: Birkbeck (University of London) 2016
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Online Access:https://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.715328