Archive for 2006
Ed’s Upcoming Exhibits at Mugshots and Laurel Hill
Greetings! I’ll be exhibiting some of my cemetery photography at the new Mugshots CoffeeHouse location in Manayunk, Sept. 4 – 30, 2006. You can now buy products with Celestial Angel (to the left) and Cemetery (featured in Death Depicted in Cemetery Symbolism – Part 2).Mugshots CoffeeHouse & Cafe 110 Cotton Street. Philadelphia, PA 19127 Just [...]
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Death Depicted in Cemetery Symbolism – Part 3
This article is part 3 in the three part series on Death Depicted in Cemetery Symbolism that covers the mourning dove, roadside memorials, urns, and other symbols of death.
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Death Depicted in Cemetery Symbolism – Part 2
This article is part 2 in the three part series on Death Depicted in Cemetery Symbolism that covers wolf tables, cemetery gates, and mourning women.
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Death Depicted in Cemetery Symbolism – Part 1
This article is part 1 in the three part series on Death Depicted in Cemetery Symbolism. It covers father time, the hourglass, human bones, and weeping willow trees.
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Spoon River Anthology
The author of this poetic odyssey, Edgar Lee Masters (1869-1950), was an enormously prolific American writer and poet. He is known mainly for Spoon River, his most popular work.
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Deja Vu Recreated in the Lab
Up to 97% of people claim to have experienced deja vu – that you’ve seen or experienced something before but you can’t place where or when. Now, a team of researchers at the University of Leeds, UK, lead by Akira O’Connor have replicated the phenomenon in the lab.
View PostNot Brain Dead But Still An Organ Donor
Before 1968, lack of heartbeat and breath were considered the defining signs of death. In 1968, a new kind of death criteria was introduced, “brain death.” As medicine advanced, so did ways of keeping people alive on respirators and feeding tubes, even if the brain no longer functioned. Throughout the 1970s, the science and legal [...]
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Confinement in Solitude at Mugshots
For the first time, I’ve mixed the content of one of my shows–angels and demons. I was offered the opportunity to hang work at Mugshots, a coffee house in the Fairmount section of Philadelphia. As Mugshots is right across the street from Eastern State Penitentiary, I decided to show both bodies of work (especially since [...]
View PostBodies from Green River Cemetery in MA To Be Exhumed and Reburied
Thanks to some strong winds that uprooted trees and washed away several yards of soil back in March, about 50 bodies are in danger of sliding 200 feet into the Green River below.
View PostBiomedical Supply House Owners Charged with Selling Body Parts For Transplants
Earlier this year, a biomedical supply house and three others were charged with selling body parts to the tune of millions of dollars. They’d obtain bodies from funeral parlors in New York City, Rochester, Philadelphia and New Jersey and then forge death certificates and organ donor consent forms to sell the organs. Prosecutors said that [...]
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