Lloyd, I'm curious about the essay on dead children's photos; please send a
copy
I hope all's well
hjg
Harvey J. Graff
Director and Professor of History
Division of Behavioral and Cultural Sciences
University of Texas at San Antonio
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> Sent: Friday, May 07, 1999 8:33 AM
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> Subject: Album Angels
>
> In the current issue of The Journal of Psychohistory, Henk van Setten's
> most interesting article "Album Angels: Parent-Child Relations as
> Reflected
> in 19th-Century Photos, Made After the Death of a Child" reproduces and
> analyzes a number of photos of dead children taken in 19th-century
> Netherlands, pointing out that "In the early 19th century in the
> Netherlands [there was] a sudden explosion of literature about dead
> children" and asking "Why was this attention to the grief caused by the
> loss of a child intensified in the early 19th century? . . . 'Modern'
> pictures in the same period (the second half of the 19th century) were
> quite different. Just reproducing an image of the dead child was not
> enough
> here. This kind of photo also tried to capture somehow the parents- grief
> for the child, for the lost relation and the lost future. In this kind of
> photo, often the two parents posed together with the little corpse. If
> this
> was an older child, it was often placed in the father's lap; if it was a
> baby or toddler, usually the mother was holding it. Here was expressly
> shown a relationship, a reality that had been broken by death."
>
> I'll be happy to send a free copy of this issue to anyone who emails me
> their postal address.
>
> Lloyd
>
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