This article discusses the prevalence and importance of linking death with photography. It starts with a general overview of philosophical tributes to photography as death , then lists works as they involve and promote these very theories.

By the end we are pseudo authorities on the theme and are then brought to the headlining show at the Musee d'art Contemporain: Andres Serrano's series, 'The Morgue.' By examining his works as Neoclassical tributes his photographs take on a clear, ordered and academic quality. The author concludes by failing to identify Serrano's artistic goals, but widely acknowledges the viewer's desire (goal?) to be challenged by the image of death.