Forget Me Not by Geoffrey Batchen
Photography and Remembrance
A study of photography’s material and social life, it examines how people have altered, embellished, and worn photographs as intimate keepsakes—from Victorian mourning jewelry and postmortem images to hand-tinted portraits, albums, and lockets that incorporate hair—to remember loved ones. Through these vernacular practices, it shows how photographs function less as neutral images than as charged objects of touch, devotion, and grief, urging a rethinking of photographic history through the lens of memory and affect.
- Published
- 2004
- Nationality
- New Zealand
- Length
- Short
- Pages
- 208
- Original Language
- English
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