Subject and object in Pieter Hugo’s The Bereaved.
This paper focuses on the aesthetics of the fine art, photographic representation of the dead body in Pieter Hugo’s photographic series,The Bereaved, produced in 2005. The series consists of four close-up colour photographs of the faces of men who died of AIDS-related illnesses and were photographed...
| Publicado en: | Mortality Vol. 21; no. 4; pp. 357 - 378 |
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