The title of the book is: Posthume, photographies post mortem et reliques de l’après vie. It is signed Philippe Baudouin and published by Cernunnos editions.
The collection of the artist Hervé Bohnert includes more than a hundred post-mortem photographs from France and the world, as well as funerary objects. It has never been shown or documented before. This book highlights, by showing this collection for the first time, the forgotten practice of post-mortem photography and offers a perspective on our current practices. Beyond their aesthetic power, these disturbing images tell the story of the evolution of our relationship to death and the afterlife.
An exhibition is also taking place until December 14 at the Librairie Alain Brieux bookstore as part of the PhotoSaintGermain festival.
Librairie Alain Brieux
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75006 Paris
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www.alainbrieux.com
http://www.photosaintgermain.com/editions/2024/parcours/librairie-alain-brieux
Philippe Baudouin : Posthume, photographies post mortem et reliques de l’après vie
éditions Cernunnos
https://www.lalibrairie.com/livres/posthume-photographies-de-l-apres-vie-et-reliques-post-mortem_0-11423960_9782374951775.html
