Description Sacred Ground is a sumptuous photographic portrait of New Orleans\'s legendary cemeteries.
Frederick Starr is the author of Southern Comfort: The Garden District of New Orleans ..
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His photographs have appeared in the New York Times , Metropolis , and Preservation .
He is the author of Henry Howard: Louisiana Architect .
Brantley has been photographing the Cemeteries of New Orleans for forty years.
About the Author Robert S.
Sacred Ground provides a stunning exploration of the traditions born of New Orleans\'s unique religious, cultural, and ethnic diversity.
Frederick Starr provides background on New Orleans cemetery history, culture, and burial customs.
The rich duotone photographs, organized by cemetery, are followed by an index identifying the tombs and their iconography; an introduction by S.
New Orleans history is further revealed through biographies of twenty individuals whose grave sites are among those featured, including entrepreneurs, celebrated musicians, a world-class violin maker, an ex-slave turned minister, a ship\'s captain, and a young soldier felled by Spanish flu while in basic training for World War I.
Brantley celebrates the otherworldly landscapes, intricate ironwork, evocative memorials, and stately monuments as vibrant sites of remembrance.
Robert S.
Description Sacred Ground is a sumptuous photographic portrait of New Orleans\'s legendary cemeteries
