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Memento Mori On the Web: What Happens When Photos are Digitized?

   December 1, 2010 June 6, 2011    2 Comments on Memento Mori On the Web: What Happens When Photos are Digitized?

An exploration of how digitization changes the context of photography, with a particular emphasis on post-mortem photography.

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History and Everyday Life, History on the Internet, Photography and History     artefacts, Commemoration, commodification, death, digitization, Joanna Sasson, material history, post-mortem photography, Victorian era, Walter Benjamin

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