A likeness of absence: photography and the contemporary visual culture of death in Athens
(2012)
Thesis
Xenou, A. S. A likeness of absence: photography and the contemporary visual culture of death in Athens. (Thesis). Edinburgh Napier University. Retrieved from http://researchrepository.napier.ac.uk/id/eprint/5423
Using my family experience as an auto-ethnographic case, I consider how photography creates postmemory and counter-memory and how it has come to adopt the position it currently holds in funereal rituals in Athens. My historical examination begins fro... Read More about A likeness of absence: photography and the contemporary visual culture of death in Athens.