PHOTOGRAPHY IN THE VISUAL ARTS: A book on photography, history, cameras and visual arts by Leonardo Vera

Author:Leonardo Vera [Vera, Leonardo]
Language: eng
Format: mobi
Published: 2020-09-13T00:00:00+00:00

Among the most important directors of photography academicista emphasize André Adolphe Eugène Disdéri , who was even one of his first theoretical work with its aesthetics of photography , 2 1862 - Oscar Gustav Rejlander , Henry Peach Robinson and Julia Margaret Cameron . 3

Post mortem photography

The photography of the deceased was a practice that was born shortly after photography (on August 19, 1839) in Paris, France, which then spread rapidly to other countries. The practice consisted of dressing the corpse of a deceased with their personal clothes and participating in a final group portrait, with their companions, family, friends, or taking an individual portrait. Mortuary photography was not considered morbid, due to the social ideology of the Romantic era . In that period, there was a nostalgic vision of medieval themes and death was conceived with a much more sentimental air, some coming to see it as a privilege. 1

Background

The fact of photographing the dead has pre-photographic antecedents in the Renaissance , where the technique was the portrait by means of painting in the so-called memento mori , a Latin phrase that means "remember that you are mortal." In the history of art it was used to represent the deceased; another technique from medieval times where it was conceived that the end was inevitable and you had to be prepared. The composition of portraits of the dead, especially religious and children, became widespread in Europe since the 16th century. The portraits of dead religious responded to the idea that it was a vanity to be portrayed in life, so once they were dead, their image was obtained. In these portraits the beauty of the deceased was highlighted and preserved for posterity. The portraits of the children, on the other hand, were a way of preserving the image of beings that were considered pure, full of beauty and were the very proof that the family of the unfortunate child had been chosen to have an "angel" in heaven. . 2

The contemplation of death and its different views through time

From very remote times, man was concerned with performing funeral rituals, as distinctive signs of man's transitory life.

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