Skip to content

Συγγράμματα

Humanistic photoessays

  • Home
  • About me
  • My best essays
  • cemeteries
  • Marywood
  • On the content and images in Συγγράμματα.

Category Archives: cemeteries

Der Tod und das Mädchen

John Kenzie Crocker died young and his parents chose the old memento mori of Death and the Maiden to commemorate him.

Posted bygsb03632July 29, 2020Posted incemeteriesTags: Binghamton N.Y., Death and the Maiden, gruesome, Spring Forest Cemetery1 Comment on Der Tod und das Mädchen

Topples

Two photographic studies of toppled monuments.

Posted bygsb03632July 29, 2020July 30, 2020Posted incemeteries, photography, RomanticismTags: Binghamton N.Y., Spring Forest Cemetery, topples1 Comment on Topples

Flora ! Redux

A gallery of (mostly) floral decoration in U.S. Cemeteries, all B/W.

Posted bygsb03632July 26, 2020July 27, 2020Posted incemeteries, photographyTags: Blandford Cemetery, Dunmore Cemetery, floral decoration, Forest Hill Cemetery, Hollenback Cemetery, Montgomery Cemetery, Sleepy Hollow Cemetery, Woodlawn CemeteryLeave a comment on Flora ! Redux

Preterition

Was this monument intended to be vaguely erotic?

Posted bygsb03632July 25, 2020August 4, 2020Posted incemeteriesTags: Bethlehem PA, double entendre, Nisky Hill Cemetery, phallic image, preteritionLeave a comment on Preterition

Death’s resistless hand

A stone one notch above vernacular slices and dices a hymn to make a quick point.

Posted bygsb03632July 24, 2020Posted incemeteries, poetryTags: Anne Steele, hymn, Little Church Street Cemetery, Petersburg VA, poetryLeave a comment on Death’s resistless hand

Villard monument

To borrow the Guide Michelin’s phrase, “vaut le voyage.”

Posted bygsb03632July 23, 2020July 24, 2020Posted inAmerican funerary portraits, cemeteries, photography, public artTags: Art Nouveau, Karl Bitter, Sleepy Hollow Cemetery, Tarrytown N.Y.Leave a comment on Villard monument

¡Y también una alfombra de piel de tigre!

You just never know what you’ll find.

Posted bygsb03632July 23, 2020July 24, 2020Posted inarchitecture, cemeteriesTags: Byzantine revival, Hollywood, Islamic revival, Kensico Cemetery, Louis H. Sullivan, Valhalla NY1 Comment on ¡Y también una alfombra de piel de tigre!

Latrobe, step aside!

Republishing this: exciting new oak-leaf capital found!

Posted bygsb03632July 22, 2020July 22, 2020Posted inarchitecture, cemeteries, UncategorizedTags: Benjamin Henry Latrobe, Neoclassical, rustic monument1 Comment on Latrobe, step aside!

Old Mortality

Sir Walter Scott in Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania? Well, why not?

Posted bygsb03632July 19, 2020July 22, 2020Posted incemeteries, public art, RomanticismTags: ancestry, Hollenback Cemetery, Laurel Hill Cemetery, Nachleben, Old Mortality, Philadelphia PA, Sir Walter Scott, Wilkes Barre PALeave a comment on Old Mortality

Still on guard

Outstanding and informative private monuments erected for two Union Civil War veterans.

Posted bygsb03632July 17, 2020August 16, 2020Posted inAmerican funerary portraits, cemeteries, public art, U.S. Civil War, UnionTags: Civil War, common soldier monument, G.A.R., Gettysburg, Ivy Hill Cemetery, Philadelphia PA, Wilkes Barre City Cemetery, Wilkes-BarreLeave a comment on Still on guard

Posts navigation

Newer posts 1 2 3 4 5 … 18 Older posts

Get new content delivered directly to your inbox.

Join 89 other followers

Συγγράμματα, Blog at WordPress.com.
  • Syngrammata on Facebook
  • On the content and images in Συγγράμματα.
Cancel