Tag: "cemetery photography"
“All Angels Show!”
Not to be confused with an “All Ages Show,” this exhibit is a ten-year retrospective of Ed Snyder’s Cemetery Statuary Photography.
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Photography Show Announcement
Ed Snyder is having a show of his photography at St. Asaph Gallery, Feb. 17 – Mar. 16 2008.
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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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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 [...]
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Ed Snyder’s Photography To Be Displayed At Mugshots CoffeeHouse
A bit of self promotion: Cemetery and Penitentiary Photography by Ed Snyder July 3 – 31, 2006 Mugshots CoffeeHouse 21st & Fairmount Avenue Philadelphia, PA 19130 (267) 514-7145
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Springtime in the Cemetery
One might imagine the original architects of the garden cemetery had spring in mind when they laid out such calming and pastoral landscapes. The image ‘Dogwood’ (to the left), taken at Historic Laurel Hill Cemetery in Philadelphia, would not be nearly as beautiful or serene without the dogwood tree. When garden cemeteries came into being [...]
View PostPhotography Show and Opening Reception at Big Jar Books
I’m having a show of some of my new work in April. It’ll be at Big Jar Books in Old City, on Second Street between Market and Arch. Free wine and possibly cheeze doodles during the opening reception.
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Valentines Show at Joe’s Coffee Bar
My photography isn’t necessarily what one would call romantic, so it was with some trepidation that I agreed to enter some work in the February (Valentine’s) Show. Cupid and Psyche is not the Antonio Canova plaster sculpture from 1793, but a marble reproduction marking a grave at the entrance to the Hollywood Forever Cemetery in [...]
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The Parkway as Road to the Necropolis?
This is the maiden blog in a series on cemetery experiences I’ve had. It is a reasonable facsimile of an article I had published in the Oct. 2004 issue of Weird New Jersey magazine. In the 8 years I’ve been roaming around cemeteries, the first four were spent shooting angels. I bagged a good number [...]
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Preparing for Loss
I have a small family. Growing up, I did not have a lot of experience with death and dying. My grandmother died when I was maybe 5. I think I must have been 16 years old when I saw my first viewing. As a rule, my family never made a big deal out of the [...]
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