Aquí no mueren los muertos
Subtitle: the dead won't die here
By: Melina Balcázar ; prólogo de Georges Didi-Hubermann ; traductora : Maria Cristina Hall
Contributors: Hall. Maria Cristina, translator; Didi-Huberman, Georges, 1953-, writer of foreword; Universidad Autónoma de Nuevo León
Edition: Primera edición.
Series: Colección Polifemo -- 9; Colección Polifemo (Argonáutica (Firm)) -- 9.
Publisher: Argonáutica Editorial; UANL; Editorial Universitaria UANL
Published: 2021
Place of publication: Monterrey, México
Language: spa; eng
Number of pages: 182
ISBN-13: 9786079859114
Subjects: Portrait photography; Postmortem photography; Death; Psychological aspects; Death in photography
Other titles: Dead won't die here
Description: This book of essays explores the relationship between photography and grief in Mexico. "The dead won't die here" is inspired by a chilhood anecdote of Melina Balcázar. Every year, on the Day of the Dead, the author and her brother were required to play outside the house as the deceased relatives  in particular the older sister  visited those who were still alive in the family home. The author explains what it meant to alternate between the Catholic Church, to which her mother went, and the Mexican Patriarchal Church, where she went with her father and that teach a spirituality made of syncretism, together with the conviction that bridges can be established, through trance, possession, and clairvoyance, with the dead. Unlike this spirituality lived in childhood, the spiritism that Balcázar explains used mechanical means such as photography to formalize, far from the principles of faith, a contact based on technique and reasoning with the hereafter.

This book of essays explores the relationship between photography and grief in Mexico. "The dead won't die here" is inspired by a chilhood anecdote of Melina Balcázar. Every year, on the Day of the Dead, the author and her brother were required to play outside the house as the deceased relatives in particular the older sister visited those who were still alive in the family home. The author explains what it meant to alternate between the Catholic Church, to which her mother went, and the Mexican Patriarchal Church, where she went with her father and that teach a spirituality made of syncretism, together with the conviction that bridges can be established, through trance, possession, and clairvoyance, with the dead. Unlike this spirituality lived in childhood, the spiritism that Balcázar explains used mechanical means such as photography to formalize, far from the principles of faith, a contact based on technique and reasoning with the hereafter.
Notes: English Title from page [93].

Includes bibliographical references.

In Spanish with English translation.
Table of contents: title: THE DEAD WON'T DIE HERE: With your eyes, speaking to the dead / George Didi Hubermann Tell them death does not exist; title: "I write this letter to you, who are in heaven..." To close (your) eyes. Of death and miracles; title: Documents and images.; title: AQUÍ NO MUEREN LOS MUERTOS: Con los ojos, hablar a los muertos / George Didi Hubermann; title: Deciles que la muerte no existe; title: "Te escribo una carta, a tí que estás en los cielos..."; title: Cerrar(te) los ojos. De la muerte y los milagros; title: Documentos e imágenes; title: .