Ed Snyder
Ed lives in the Philadelphia area and works as a clinical engineer in a local teaching hospital. He has been making photographs for the past 30 years. His early work- color landscape photography –has been shown in New York and Philadelphia galleries. His current work has been shown in New York, Philadelphia, and New Orleans. Buy a copy of his book, Stone Angels: A celebration of the Mourning Arts.
By Ed Snyder on June 10, 2008
Not to be confused with an “All Ages Show,” this exhibit is a ten-year retrospective of Ed Snyder’s Cemetery Statuary Photography.
Posted in Announcements & Events | Tagged angels, art show, cemetery angels, cemetery photography, cemetery statuary, Photography
By Ed Snyder on January 29, 2008
Ed Snyder is having a show of his photography at St. Asaph Gallery, Feb. 17 – Mar. 16 2008.
Posted in Announcements & Events, Death & Dying, Grief & Mourning, Photography | Tagged angels, art show, cemetery angels, cemetery photography, cemetery statuary, Photography
By Ed Snyder on October 2, 2007
Drawing from his experience as a paramedic in Harlem, the author takes us on a gritty ride through the squalid backstreets of NYC circa 1990. Through his main character Frank, a paramedic, Mr. Burke relates life through ambulance calls with gruesome clarity and realism.
Posted in Reviews | Tagged book review, death, dying, Photography
By Ed Snyder on August 31, 2006
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 off Main Street [...]
Posted in Announcements & Events | Tagged angels, art show, cemetery angels, cemetery photography, cemetery statuary, Photography
By Ed Snyder on August 21, 2006
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.
Posted in Death & Dying, Symbolism | Tagged Cemeteries, cemetery memorial, death, Symbolism
By Ed Snyder on August 21, 2006
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.
Posted in Death & Dying, Symbolism | Tagged Cemeteries, cemetery memorial, death, Symbolism
By Ed Snyder on August 21, 2006
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.
Posted in Death & Dying, Symbolism | Tagged Cemeteries, cemetery memorial, death, Symbolism
By Ed Snyder on August 18, 2006
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.
Posted in Death & Dying, Reviews | Tagged book review, death, poetry, spoon river
By Ed Snyder on July 11, 2006
This article is part of a series on How Historic Laurel Hill Cemetery Is Reinventing Itself. It is based on an interview with Ross Mitchell, Executive Director of Laurel Hill Cemetery in Philadelphia, PA.
Stoneangels: As far as actually getting to Laurel Hill, you can see it from Roosevelt Boulevard, but you have no [...]
Posted in Interviews, Laurel Hill | Tagged laurel hill cemetery, ross mitchell
By Ed Snyder on July 11, 2006
This article is part of a series on How Historic Laurel Hill Cemetery Is Reinventing Itself. It is based on an interview with Ross Mitchell, Executive Director of Laurel Hill Cemetery in Philadelphia, PA.
Stoneangels: Let me ask you about Sylvester Stallone and shooting the opening scenes of [the upcoming movie] “Rocky VI,” at [...]
Posted in Interviews, Laurel Hill | Tagged ghost stories, hauntings, laurel hill cemetery, rocky, ross mitchell