![]() How is death best depicted in a photograph? Photographing a dead animal, person or people is one obvious way forward. All photographs, it has been argued, put their subjects to death 1 Guibert wrote that for Cartier-Bresson, taking a photograph was the equivalent of a "mise à mort." 2 For Guibert himself, photography was more of an act of love, as I have shown elsewhere. ![]() In this article, however, I plan to discuss Guibert's visual contributions to thanatology, those of his photographs that represent death through a variety of subjects, not just himself, although I will also be examining his self-portraits. This account of his battle with AIDS, a clinical account of his own physical and psychological journey towards an untimely death, is a remarkably honest and detailed narrative which justly dominates discussions of Guibert's contributions to thanatological writing. ![]() ![]() GUIBERT WAS FASCINATED BY DEATH from an early age, certainly from well before his AIDS writings, although his best-known thanatological work is doubtlessly À l'ami qui ne m'a pas sauvé la vie. ![]()
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