The Miracle of Death, 2000 by Breda Beban is an image that I came across in the chapter Intimate Life in The Photograph as Contemporary Art. It was the only image in the chapter that I felt I could relate well to the brief. There were others that I felt could work with the brief, but this is the image that stood out to me the most. Beban’s husband, Hrovje Horvatic died in 1997, which caused Beban to produce a series of images (other images shown to the left) using the box that contained her husband’s ashes. She photographed this box in the different rooms of their home, which still held her husbands possessions.
Charlotte Cotton describes Beban as unable to give the box of ashes a fixed place, “thus indicating her inability to reconcile herself to her loss. Beban’s photographs epitomize the capacity of intimate photography to describe a detail of life simple and without obvious elaboration, and to invest it with the profundity of human emotion.”
I think it is interesting just how intimate the images are, using a very personal image as the main subject of the image and clearly showing Beban’s feelings towards the subject. I hope to be able to produce images that are as intimate as this series, even though I do not have an object of such significance. These images clearly fit with the brief, as there is the representation of the person that is no longer there (though in this case the person has died, rather than walking out of her life).
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