Beautiful Death: The Art of the Cemetery (Penguin Studio Books)

So glad I could only buy this book used The introduction by Dean Koontz had nothing whatever to do with this book's title or contents. Koontz deviated from a family mystery, which also had nothing to do with the book, to a 250,000 million-year-old cataclysm that wiped out the predecessors of the dinosaurs, and the later disaster that finished the dinosaurs. He then veered to the hopeful foolishness of poets who write for the ages, whose works will also . N K Powell said It's all about hope.. There was nothing morbid about this book. It does not seek cheap, necromantic thrills for immature minds by exploiting the dead. Instead, it seeks to bring comfort to the bereaved by grappling with death itself. It wrestles with issues that our often shallow and mindless society would rather ignore than engage.The photographs are absolutely beautiful and the essays are thoughtful and well written. The photographer. "Good book, pics need to be larger" according to Jeff B NoVA. I now know what I need to do for retirement. Photograph cemeteries. There just aren't enough picture books out there. Even as a hobby photographer, I can frame the subject and take some great pics w/o post-processing.

In the spirit of Halloween comes a compelling meditation on mortality by an evocative world-class photographer and by the bestselling master of the mystery thriller. 130 color photos.. From the history of the 19th century European municipal cemetery to the grave of an Italian couple whom "death shall not divide", Beautiful Death is a many-faceted tribute to an eternally fascinating subject