Their sheer scale captures the power, wealth, and energy which was available to those who created them. The Egyptian pyramids which housed the dead, have endured and are perhaps the most famous tombs of all time.
Two of the seven wonders of the ancient world were tombs––the great pyramids of Egypt and the mausoleum of Halicarnassus. The viewer may also opine about how they themselves will eventually arrive in such a quiet setting.ĭeath has inspired some of the world’s most imposing and monumental architecture. Grave sites serve as the foundation muniments of the archive, with their markers suggesting what the inhabitants of the cemetery did before they came there. Just as Virgil’s Aeneas buried his dead in places that were destined to become sites of Roman triumph, these markers, or tombstones, assure that the inhabitants of the site, although deceased, are not homeless or forgotten. Each instant reminisces the myths associated with the realm of the dead and affords time to contemplate the tombstones which serve as a Derridaean, biographical, archive. The moments in a cemetery seem endless with each moment no more decisive than another. In a necropolis there is no need to worry about capturing what the photographer Henri Cartier-Bresson described as the decisive moment.
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A cemetery is full of people, but they are very quiet and very still. Such a perfect, quiet, and serene setting is found in a cemetery. If more time is required an individual may return on a subsequent day. One solution in finding a place of solitude, such as a desert or mountain wilderness, is complicated by a need for transportation.įortunately, there is often no need for long stays in such a place, a few hours of quiet, alone with the camera, will suffice. The maxim silence is golden becomes a sought-after locus for the image maker. Places of spiritual pilgrimage may offer a wealth of imaginative, even serene, vision but even contemplative, living, subjects can become exhausting, especially if the photographer is carrying heavy equipment. A quiet retreat, without another living being, can be a solution for the artist who seeks contemplation without the tumult and distractions that corporeality presents. To the portrait and street photographer, navigating through groups of living individuals often becomes tiring. Only the dead know the truth of such myths, for the living can never grasp any empirical accuracy of the dead with certainty. Some of these myths seem empyrean, others seem, at times, infernal. A stroll which allows the observer to study the graves of unknown individuals creates a narrative which gives the mind a chance to reflect on all the myths that cemeteries, and their inhabitants, have to offer. Even during burials, the only sound is a hushed requiem. The dead communicate in a taciturnity which is contrary to the din of the living. A cemetery is usually very quiet and curiously calm, a place in which death itself becomes an abstraction.
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Their presence in a necropolitan domain serves as an expressive realm for the dead to offer a stranger, who did not know the deceased in life, an archive which can stimulate the imagination of the living. Nor are those lamented in any way obsolete. However, the dead are not truly lost, but simply no longer alive. The dead are interpreted as a personal loss for survivors. Requiem aeternam dona eis, Domine, et lux perpetua luceat eisĪ stroll through a cemetery can be an exhaustive and lugubrious task for the bereaved. Printed in the United States of America ISBN: 978-6-9īDe gNas Productions bde.gnas and Distributed by Harvard Book Store Cambridge, MA This book or any portion thereof may not be reproduced or used in any manner whatsoever without the express written permission of the publisher except for the use of brief quotations in a book review.
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