Tag: "cemetery statuary"

“All Angels Show!”

“All Angels Show!”

| June 10, 2008 | 0 Comments

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

Photography Show Announcement

| January 29, 2008 | 0 Comments

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

Ed’s Upcoming Exhibits at Mugshots and Laurel Hill

| August 31, 2006 | 0 Comments

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

Confinement in Solitude at Mugshots

| July 31, 2006 | 0 Comments

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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Saving Graces: The Art of Sensual Statues in Cemeteries

Saving Graces: The Art of Sensual Statues in Cemeteries

| December 16, 2005 | 0 Comments

On walking through just about any cemetery established after 1850, one is likely to see sensual female figures, carved, or rather released, from a variety of material – granite, marble, bronze. This is principally true in France and England, the birthplaces of “garden cemeteries.” For the uninitiated, garden cemeteries are essentially outdoor sculpture gardens, conceived [...]

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