Death, Mourning & the Afterlife

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“All Angels Show!”

Ed Snyder | 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

Ed Snyder | 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 Snyder | 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

admin | 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

Ed Snyder | 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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Ed’s Cemetery Traveler Blog

The Cemeteries of Germantown February 6, 2012
Days after our mid-January tramp through Philadelphia’s Germantown cemeteries, I’m worshiping the Neti (pot) god, hoping the water doesn’t contain any parasitic brain-eating amoebas (see link at end). The frigid winter weather made my cold worse, in addition to freezing my fingertips off. But it was worth it. Two fellow cemetery travelers and I checked out […]
The Graves of Old Tampa Bay January 25, 2012
It’s so cold here in Philadelphia in mid-January that the veiled threat of snow makes me want to go to Florida for a while. So here we go. I was in Tampa a couple years ago, and spent some time in its quaint downtown Oaklawn Cemetery. If you think Florida has been northernized by all the tourists and retirees, a quick look at some of the gravestones will rem […]
What to Do with those Broken Old Tombstones? January 14, 2012
I heard something rather shocking the other day from the owner of a farmhouse near an old graveyard in rural Leeds, Maryland. It had to do with old broken tombstones. But just to keep you on edge for a bit, here’s the lead-in to the story. Rural graveyards can be quite small and are difficult to locate. Even with a map, you’ll drive right past them. As I at […]