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Now Available
Text in English, German, and French
Cincinnati, 2004, 128pp., 40 tritone images
Printed by Meridian Printing
PURCHASE
While
on a research trip to France, I was deeply moved by the sheer
number of monuments created in honor of those who died in World
War I. The unprecedented number of wartime casualties introduced
the concept that when a country loses a huge portion of its
population in wartime, it has a need to acknowledge and defend
the sacrifice in a public manner. In Western Front countries,
the thousands of national, local, and private memorials
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Menin
Gate (British Memorial to the Missing), Ypres, Belgium
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that were built became, and continue to be, places of pilgrimage
and remembrance, along with the hundreds of military cemeteries
where soldiers lie buried.
Although
World War I memorialization was the catalyst for this project,
the impulse for undertaking acts of remembrance to lost loved
ones is profound, regardless of culture or era. These photographs
act both as a reminder of the ongoing cost of historical events
and as a mirror to the human heart.
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here to view this body of work.
