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  Already dead? Of tombstones, empire, and photography

Walton, J. F. (2020). Already dead? Of tombstones, empire, and photography. In J. F. Walton, G. Carabelli, M. Jovanović, & A. Kirbis (Eds.), Sharpening the haze: visual essays on imperial history and memory (pp. 27-41). London: Ubiquity Press. doi:10.5334/bcd.b.

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Walton, Jeremy F.1, Author                 
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Free keywords: Austria, Croatia, Greece, post-imperialism, cemeteries, photography, Collective memory
 Abstract: Across the segmented political space of central and southeast Europe, cemeteries speak eloquently of the foreclosed social, religious, and political pasts of empire to those attuned to their vocabulary and cadences. In this intervention, I offer a collage of photographs of tombstones from three imperial World War I cemeteries: the Soldatenfriedhof in Styria, Austria; the Habsburg Naval Cemetery in Pula, Croatia; and, the Zeitenlik Allied War Cemetery in Thessaloniki, Greece. I do so with two aims. First, I hope to explore how these tombstones together form a serendipitous archive of empire’s social worlds in sepulchral form. Secondly, and based on this consideration, I offer a set of theoretical remarks on photography of tombstones more generally. With Roland Barthes’ famous aphorism on the deathly quality of photography in mind--”by attesting that the object has been real, the photograph surreptitiously induces belief that it is alive...but by shifting this reality to the past ('this-has-been'), the photograph suggests that it is already dead”--I reflect on what effect photography might have on that which is “already dead” (the grave). This, in turn, opens up a set of new metaphors for thinking about the representation of another object that is ostensibly “already dead”: empire as a sociopolitical form.

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Language(s): eng - English
 Dates: 20202020
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 Identifiers: DOI: 10.5334/bcd.b
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Title: Sharpening the haze: visual essays on imperial history and memory
Source Genre: Collected Edition
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Walton, Jeremy F.1, Editor                 
Carabelli, Giulia1, Editor           
Jovanović, Miloš1, Editor           
Kirbis, Annika1, Editor           
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1 Research Group Empires of Memory, MPI for the Study of Religious and Ethnic Diversity, Max Planck Society, ou_2301695            
Publ. Info: London : Ubiquity Press
Pages: - Volume / Issue: - Sequence Number: - Start / End Page: 27 - 41 Identifier: ISBN: 978-1-911529-64-4