The funeral home interior seems familiar - with coffee tables, armchairs, wallpaper and carpet abound, arranged to maximize comfort - yet it is undeniably foreign. Few people today give attention to space, detail, and the scale of the human body like funeral home directors. The staged domesticity of the funeral home is fine-tuned to act as a believable stand-in for the home. Classic Architecture and sophisticated technology pervade these spaces in the service of one of society's most conservative functions.The IAA has collaborated with photographers and technicians to translate a representative sample of existing and hypothetical funeral home interiors into a digital format (here retranslated and presented with some gain in noise). This digitization, while removing any doubts about the realness or verifiability of the images presented, will allow us to archive and circulate these spaces indefinitely.
No analog lighting was added in this process: all images give an accurate reading of the light ratios as recorded by the technology, allowing us to perceive previously imperceptible spectra.
See Selected Documentation of Funeral Homes
