Photography and the culture of memory in Belarus in the second half of the 19th - early 21st centuries.

“Photography and the Culture of Memory in Belarus” is a popular science monograph dedicated to the connections between photography and methods of preserving memory in Belarusian culture.
The author explores photographic portraits, family and funeral photographs through the lens of contemporary theories of memory, showing how photography reflects the lives, losses and identities of a people.
The book contains unique illustrations from museums, private collections, and field ethnographic materials.
The publication will be interesting to ethnologists, historians, art historians, as well as everyone who preserves family archives and is interested in Belarusian cultural heritage.

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The monograph traces and analyzes the connections between photography and the culture of preserving and transmitting memory among Belarusians. Photographic portraits and family photographs are considered through the prism of modern humanitarian theories of memory. Special attention is paid to the study of photographs in village interiors. The book presents all the main periods of the emergence, flourishing and decline of the tradition of funerary photography among Belarusians; the early stages of the history of tombstone photography are reconstructed and the main trends of its development at the modern stage are traced; extensive visual sources from the collections of Belarusian museums, private collections, as well as field ethnographic materials collected by the author are used.
It is intended for ethnologists, historians, art historians, local historians, and genealogy enthusiasts, as well as a wide range of readers who understand the value of their own collections of family photographs.