One of my friends (an interview participant) emailed me a link to an article in the Chicago Tribune ("Keepers of the dead" by ) about The Museum of Mourning Photography & Memorial Practice. It is a wonderful collection of photographs that features death portraits and mourning photographs. Curator Anthony Vizzari writes:
"The museum of Mourning Photography & Memorial Practice is not intended for morbid fascination, but as an investigation into human ritual. The Museum’s focus is on how photography, a tool and artistic medium, preserves memory as an expressive cultural document."
Image used with permission from MoMP.
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