Sacred ground : the cemeteries of New Orleans /

A sumptuous photographic portrait of New Orleans' legendary cemeteries and their collage of architectural monuments, sculptural memorials, ironwork and landscapes, shown as living structures that are unique expressions of remembrance and identity. The open-air museums of each cemetery, really t...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Brantley, Robert S. (Author)
Other Authors: Starr, S. Frederick (writer of foreword.)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Hudson, New York : Princeton Architectural Press, [2019]
Edition:First edition.
Subjects:
Table of Contents:
  • Part 1. Twenty biographies : identity, history, rites of passage
  • Silent sentinels against time
  • Nicolas Mioton (1791-1834)
  • John Lawless (1810-1850) Kasper Auch (1811-1886)
  • John Davidson (1816-1872)
  • Richard B. Sumner (1816-1868)
  • Edward Sweeney (1822-1874)
  • Rev. Emperor Williams (1826-1896)
  • Seymour Alexander Stewart (1835-1856)
  • John Oliver Locke (1836-1864)
  • Captain Eugene Pierre Gaspard (1839-1889)
  • Rev. Rene M. J. Vallee (1839-1892)
  • William H. Webb (1839-1884)
  • C. Otto Weber (1847-1901)
  • Martha Lena Little (1856-1920)
  • Heinrick Benthin (1857-1928)
  • Albert Richard Edbrooke (1870-1925)
  • Virginia Gleaves Lazarus (1871-1897)
  • Charles Ferdinand Vorbusch (1891-1915)
  • Leslie Philip Backes (1897-1918)
  • Anonymous (unknown-2018)
  • Part 2. The photographs
  • A photographer's vision.