This book of essays explores the relationship between photography and grief in Mexico. "The dead won't die here" is inspired by a chilhood anecdote of Melina Balcázar. Every year, on the Day of the Dead, the author and her brother were required to play outside the house as the decease...

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Main Author:	Balcázar Moreno, Melina (Author)
Other Authors:	Hall, María Cristina (Translator)
Format:	Book
Language:	English Spanish
Published:	[Monterrey, México] Editorial Argonáutica [2020]
Edition:	Primera edición
Series:	Colección Polifemo 9
Subjects:	Tod Totenbett Fotografie Trauer Mexiko Death / Psychological aspects Portrait photography Postmortem photography Death in art
Summary:	This book of essays explores the relationship between photography and grief in Mexico. "The dead won't die here" is inspired by a chilhood anecdote of Melina Balcázar. Every year, on the Day of the Dead, the author and her brother were required to play outside the house as the deceased relatives in particular the older sister visited those who were still alive in the family home. The author explains what it meant to alternate between the Catholic Church, to which her mother went, and the Mexican Patriarchal Church, where she went with her father and that teach a spirituality made of syncretism, together with the conviction that bridges can be established, through trance, possession, and clairvoyance, with the dead. Unlike this spirituality lived in childhood, the spiritism that Balcázar explains used mechanical means such as photography to formalize, far from the principles of faith, a contact based on technique and reasoning with the hereafter.
Physical Description:	182 Seiten Illustrationen, Faksimiles, Porträts 21 cm
ISBN:	9786079859114 6079859114