Sleeping Beauty: Memorial Photography in America
by Stanley B. Burns
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An insider's history of the "Beat" movement and its personalities through the personal photographs of one of its principle figures. Pointing his camera randomly at the counterculture around him, the poet created a unique visual record of his friends and companions covering a period of almost forty years. His subjects include Jack Kerouac, William Burroughs, Neal Cassady, Robert Frank, Paul Bowles, Timothy Leary, dozens of other writers, painters, and friends, and several revealing show more self-portraits. Beneath each photograph are Ginsberg's handwritten reminiscences of the circumstances, people, and places relating to the photograph. -- Amazon.com. show lessTags
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Interesting but rather sad book. Besides the postmortem pictures of children and a few adults, there is a chronological history of death in America, discussing such things as life insurance, funeral homes, tombstones, and childhood diseases and epidemics. This is the 2nd book in the series that I have read.
This book of death photography from the Stanley Burns archives alternately is heart-breaking and fascinating. I tended to focus on the pictures of dead children because, or course, they are the saddest, but this book also contains death photos of crime victims, bad men and people who simply died and were mourned. You can read more of my review of this book at: http://ireadoddbooks.com/?p=19
You have to have a really morbid curiosity to view these images. Personally, I found them remarkable.
You have to have a really morbid curiosity to view these images. Personally, I found them remarkable.
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