Andre Chabot

Eroticism in the cemetery

Recumbent effigies

The council of angels

Departed children

Funerary architecture

Rituals and remembrances

Books of stone

Shopping for sculls

Necropolitan perambulations:
photographic essays on cemeteries around the worldLisbonne, Portugal

Strolling through the necropoli, these essays provide tours of funerary art, architecture and customs found in cemeteries around the world.

Stopping before tombs of the famous as well as graves of the unknown, and examining sculptural masterpieces and amateur constructions alike, these pictures unite one and all.

Mourning is witnessed in all its states: husbands sit at the side of recumbent beauties while weeping women deposit a crown. Children go scandalously missing, and angels reclaim a sweet soul.

People kneel, prostrate themselves and collapse. Figures caress and embrace. Some strike theatrical poses of sharp pain. Others quietly nurse their sorrow, veiled in marble or bronze...

View our essays, featuring black and white photos of the following (Flash required):

Genes, Italie

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